‘Leave knowing and understandings, go to that greatness of space. When you come to that vastness, there’s no speck of Buddhism in your heart.’
Zen Master Bukko
Morning Meditaton
Morning meditation — Reciting the Sacred Texts.
Often reciting the sacred texts without putting them into practice is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — The Dukkha does Not.
‘The dukkha does not necessarily arise because we can’t fulfil our wish; most likely we can.’
Ayya Khema
Morning meditation —Because we are not Desire.
‘Because we are not desire, however, desire is something that we can observe and learn from.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Glimpse Wishless Liberation.
‘To glimpse of wishless liberation, we can notice the dissatisfaction — dukkha — that arises in the heart whenever we want something.’
Ayya Khema
Morning meditation — It Cannot Really be Named.
‘It is merely as an expedient that the Essence of Mind is so called; it cannot really be named by any name.’
Hui Neng
Morning meditation — Only the Heedful and Aware.
Don’t give way to heedlessness.
Don’t indulge in sense pleasure.
Only the heedful and aware attain great happiness.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation: Tantra is not that Difficult.
‘Tantra is not that difficult.
Idea is by visualising being Buddha we get closer to Awakening.
As we are Buddha — why not act like Buddha?’
Everyday Buddhist
Buddhism now 