‘The Buddha said that the assertion that all things are empty refers to nothing other than the awareness that they are empty of selfhood.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Theravada
Morning meditation — People talk a lot about freedom.
‘People talk a lot about freedom in the sense of being physically able to do what one wants. And yet that kind of freedom can lead to slavery.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning Meditation —So where do we learn?
‘So where do we learn? We learn here in this very body with its perceptions and mental activity.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation — If, bhikkhus, there were no not-born.
‘If, bhikkhus, there were no not-born, not-brought-to-being, not-made, not-conditioned, no escape would be discerned from what is born, brought-to-being, made, conditioned.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation — I ask that you watch it carefully.
‘I ask that you watch it carefully, this mind when it’s empty, when it’s not concocting any desires for anything, not wanting pleasure or trying to push away pain.’
Upasika Kee Nanayon
Brahmaviharas by Ajahn Sumedho
Brahmaviharas (The Four Immeasurables): Equanimity, Loving Kindness, Compassion, and Sympathetic Joy.
Morning Meditation — The single phrase ‘empty of self’.
‘‘The single phrase ‘empty of self’ sums up the words ‘impermanent (anicca), unsatisfactory (dukkha) and not self (anatta)’.’’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation — The mind, when it’s not engrossed.
‘The mind, when it’s not engrossed with the taste of pleasure or pain, is free in line with its nature.’
Upasika Kee Nanayon
Buddhism now 