‘The Perfect Way is difficult only for those who pick and choose.’
Seng-ts’an
Morning Meditaton
Morning Meditation — Don’t be deluded by anyone.
‘Don’t be deluded by anyone, this is all I teach. If you want to make use of it, then use it right now without doubt or delay.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Morning meditation — Do not talk about the ‘Void’ all day.
‘Do not talk about the ‘Void’ all day without practicing it in the mind. One who does this may be likened to a self-styled king who is really a commoner. Prajna can never be attained in this way.’
Hui Neng
Morning meditation — Buddha’s path is not one of striving.
‘Buddha’s path is not one of striving but a path of realising, not a path of becoming but a path of being. It is a path that asks us to let go of our ideas about enlightenment and to experience the truth of our own being, directly and intimately, in each moment of our lives.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — An enlightened second thought makes one a Buddha.
‘A foolish passing thought makes one an ordinary man, while an enlightened second thought makes one a Buddha. A passing thought that clings to sense-objects is Klesa, while a second thought that frees one from attachment is Bodhi.’
Hui Neng
Morning meditation —We all have to learn the comfort of being ourselves.
‘We all have to learn the comfort of being ourselves — and not someone else.’
John Aske
Morning meditation — To cross the Ganges.
‘To cross the Ganges, one must learn to swim!’
Padampa Sangye
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
Buddhism now 