‘We all have to learn the comfort of being ourselves — and not someone else.’
John Aske
Morning Meditaton
Morning meditation — To cross the Ganges.
‘To cross the Ganges, one must learn to swim!’
Padampa Sangye
Morning meditation — And what, monks, is ageing?
‘And what, monks, is ageing? In whatever beings of whatever group of beings, there is ageing, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, shrinking with age, decay of the sense-faculties—that, monks, is called ageing.’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — If you do zazen, you get to see for yourself.
‘If you do zazen, you get to see for yourself that things just arise in your perception; where they begin and where they end you cannot know.’
Gien Inour Roshi
Morning meditation — Prajna comes from the Essence of Mind and not from an exterior source.
‘Learned Audience, all Prajna comes from the Essence of Mind and not from an exterior source. Have no mistaken notion about that. This is called ‘Self-use of the True Nature’. Once the Tathata (Suchness) is known, one will be free from delusion forever.’
Hui Neng
Morning meditation — One who has realised the Dhamma.
‘One who has realised the Dhamma is like one who has realised the sweetness or sourness of the fruit. All doubts are ended right here.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — The wise who point out our faults.
‘The wise who point out our faults, are worth cultivating as they guide us to a hidden treasure.’
The Dhammapada
Morning Meditation — If you see into this fact.
‘In one instant, as it is, is an infinite number of kalpas.
An infinite number of kalpas are at the same time this one instant.
If you see into this fact,
The True Self which is seeing has been seen into.’
Zen master Mumon
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