‘When you begin to use thought the way it ought to be used, you find it easier to let go of thought.’
Gien Inour Roshi
Morning Meditaton
Morning meditation — Your future projects and plans are like nets cast in a dry riverbed.
‘Your future projects and plans are like nets cast in a dry riverbed: they’ll never bring what you want. Limit your desires and aspirations.’
Words of my Perfect Teacher
Morning Meditation — The house of silent illumination is the hall of pure bliss.
‘The house of silent illumination is the hall of pure bliss.
Dwelling in peace and forgetting hardship, let go of adornments and become genuine.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning Meditation — The motto for becoming genuine.
‘The motto for becoming genuine: nothing is gained by speaking.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning Meditation — The deep source of realisation.
‘The deep source of realisation comes with constancy, bliss, self, and purity.
Its purity is constant, its bliss is myself.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning meditation — Everyone has the Buddha Nature.
‘May those caught in the guru business realise that everyone has the Buddha Nature.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — One who knows not this emptiness.
‘One who knows not this emptiness,
Is terrified to meet desire.
He fears when there is nothing to fear—
How can he ever secure peace and joy?’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — This mind-nature is the original source of all Buddhas.
‘This mind-nature is the original source of all Buddhas. It is the names of all the sutras.’
Bassui Tokushō
Buddhism now 