‘May those caught in the guru business realise that everyone has the Buddha Nature.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning Meditaton
Morning meditation — If you are willing to do whatever it takes to find your way out of suffering.
‘If you are willing to do whatever it takes to find your way out of suffering — and it means confronting the roots of resistance and craving right here, right now — you can reach complete success.’
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Morning Meditation — The problem is the relationship between the mind and its objects.
‘The problem is the relationship between the mind and its objects, between the senses and their objects. And this relationship is charged with attachment, aversion and ignorance.’
Corrado Pensa
Morning meditation — This is the Buddha’s firm and unshakeable awareness.
‘This is the Buddha’s firm and unshakeable awareness that watches over and protects the mind.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — You take something that no longer exists and put it into your mind.
‘You take something that no longer exists and put it into your mind and compare it with what comes up. If you have a shadow of something, can you hold onto that shadow? All of your perceptions, as they arise like shadows, have nothing for you to hold on to.’
Gien Inour Roshi
Morning meditation — The mind can be focused on one thing.
‘The mind can be focused on one thing — on the body, the breath, or whatever — without there being any obstacles like distraction or dullness.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Morning meditation — Fools think they harm themselves.
‘Fools think they harm themselves by putting others first.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Awareness does not belong to anyone.
‘Awareness does not belong to anyone; it is not ‘my’ awareness or ‘your’ awareness. It is vast, boundless, and ever-present, beyond the categories of self and other.’
Everyday Buddhism
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