‘Knowing the world as the world means that you are fully aware of the existential reality of being a human being.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Theravada
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
Morning meditation — Buddha is wisdom.
‘Buddha is the knowing of condition as condition. Buddha is wisdom, knowing wisdom, and this is what we take refuge in.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — It would be better to swallow a red-hot iron ball.
It would be better to swallow a red-hot iron ball, blazing like fire, than as an immoral and uncontrolled monk to eat the alms of the people.
The Dhammapada
Buddhism now 