You don’t have to believe these Four Noble Truths — but realise them.
Theravada
Morning meditation — If a person speaks or acts with pure mind.
If a person speaks or acts with pure mind, joy follows them like their own shadow.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — Knowing the world as the world means.
‘Knowing the world as the world means that you are fully aware of the existential reality of being a human being.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Buddha says in the Dhammapada.
Buddha says in the Dhammapada that we should work for our own liberation because the buddhas can only show us the way.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — You might have denied and rejected things.
‘You might have denied and rejected things in the past, but in awareness you include and open to them.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Anyone who is tired of being unhappy.
‘Who should undertake this Buddhist training?
Anyone who is tired of being unhappy.’
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Morning meditation — In a more profound sense the Buddha.
‘To say that the Buddha has passed into Nibbana is not necessarily true. In a more profound sense the Buddha is still alive.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — Trees don’t know anything.
‘Trees don’t know anything, they act on natural laws, yet they do know enough to grow away from danger, to incline towards a suitable place.’
Ajahn Chah
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