‘Rather than searching for a distant place where suffering does not exist, the Buddha invites us to investigate the nature of suffering itself, right here in the present.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning Meditaton
Morning meditation — Where do mind and body fall away?
Buddha was asked, ‘where do mind and body fall away?’
He replied, “Vinnanam anidassanam anantam sabbato pabham” (consciousness, signless, timeless and everywhere brightly shining).
[The Kevaddha Sutta]
The Kevaddha Sutta
Morning meditation — Buddhists are people and people do believe things.
‘Buddhists are people and people do believe things, but Buddhism is concerned with truth, not with belief, and the teaching is to see things as they are.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning Meditation — Nobody likes ordinary, commonplace things.
‘Nobody likes ordinary, commonplace things. And that is quite natural. A good medicine is bitter to the taste, but it wakes us up. It makes us open our eyes. And waking up spoils our dreams.’
Zen Master Hakuin
Morning meditation — The Tathagata has abandoned that clinging to views.
‘The Tathagata has abandoned that clinging to views, that adherence to views. Having seen what can be seen as it actually is, without grasping, without rejection . . .’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — Do not do anything (good or bad).
‘Do not do anything (good or bad) and do not even do this not-doing; then straightaway one reaches that place where there is no concern for external affairs, that vast and peaceful place where there are absolutely no obstructing thoughts.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — It’s great fun to observe.
‘I’m telling you, it’s great fun to observe closely how the mind works.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — Though there are ten thousand different names.
‘Though there are ten thousand different names, there are not even two dharma realities. For that reason it is written in a sutra: ‘The teachings in the sutras are fingers pointing to the moon.’
Bassui Tokushō
Buddhism now 