‘The significance of the Buddhist teaching lies in the fact that it isn’t doctrinal. It’s not an attempt to tell us how things should be, it’s more a way of bringing our attention to the way things are.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning Meditaton
Morning meditation — The pleasures we seek are fleeting.
‘The pleasures we seek are fleeting, and the attachments we form inevitably lead to disappointment when they pass away.’
Everyday Buddhism
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 — When we see through the illusion of self.
‘When we see through the illusion of self, we no longer act out of self-interest but from a place of genuine care for the well-being of others.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Mind is empty, and while being empty, it still knows.
‘Mind is empty, and while being empty, it still knows or experiences. Space is empty and does not know anything. That is the difference between space and mind.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.
‘A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — When insight arises.
‘When insight arises — deepen your practice.’
Gampopa
Morning meditation — The Eightfold Path has played such a central role in the evolution of the Buddha’s teaching.
‘The Eightfold Path has played such a central role in the evolution of the Buddha’s teaching and suggests that it may have emerged organically from Shakyamuni Buddha’s own behaviour and life example.’
Everyday Buddhism
