‘Learned Audience, the Wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realise it ourselves.’
Hui Neng
Morning Meditaton
Morning meditation — Attachment operates as wanting something or wanting more.
‘Sometimes anger may give some kind of immediate support, some kind of strength and power, but in the long run it doesn’t. There’s always some fear behind it.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Morning meditation — When you are thinking of neither good nor evil.
‘I said, ‘‘When you are thinking of neither good nor evil, what is at that particular moment, Venerable Sir, your real nature (literally, original face)?’’’
Hui Neng
Morning meditation — Where can the dust alight?
‘There is no Bodhi-tree,
Nor stand of a mirror bright.
Since all is void,
Where can the dust alight?
Hui Neng
[Enjoy the simple insight of this verse.]’
Hui Neng
Morning meditation — Awareness, not two.
‘Awareness, not two. The inner and the outer no longer feel divided. The sense of ‘me’ observing the world softens, or falls away. Thought still moves, but is not taken as real. Experience flows without clinging, without story, without ‘‘two’’.’
Everyday Buddhist
Morning meditation — Not-two does not arrive as a philosophy.
‘In practice, the insight of not-two does not arrive as a philosophy, but as a felt shift in perception.’
Everyday Buddhist
Morning meditation — Once we penetrate to the truth.
‘Once we penetrate to the truth, we are freed from everything. Only peace remains.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — The Buddha points beyond ‘is’ and ‘is not’.
‘The Buddha points beyond ‘is’ and ‘is not’, beyond ‘eternal’ and ‘annihilated‘, and ultimately beyond any view that divides experience into fixed categories.’
Everyday Buddhist
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