Morning Meditaton

Morning meditation — Knowledge and Ignorance are Both.

‘Knowledge and ignorance are both untrue, nothing but dream and illusion. The nonduality of true and untrue, that’s the state of buddha.’

Longchenpa

‘I’m sure you know that many meditators and Zen masters get their insights during everyday life or in walking meditation after sitting.’

Everyday Buddhism

‘Meditation techniques are easy to practise because they have a form. Awareness is harder because it has no form.’

Everyday Buddhism

‘A beginner to Buddhist practice has more chance of awakening than someone who thinks they know it all.’

Zen Graffiti

‘Papañca — is when you feel a certain way and your thoughts just go on and on without any direction, simply rattling on, one thought after another.’

Everyday Buddhism

‘A monk who does not direct his mind to external things is aware: My mind is not directed to external things.’

The Buddha

‘Truth is beyond words, but the Buddha used them to teach, to point out the truth.’

Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way

‘To call something a foundation of Buddhist Teachings is only correct if firstly, it is a principle which aims at the extinction of Dukkha.’

Buddhadasa Bhikkhu