‘What comes after death is not clear to us right now, because we cannot see our next rebirth.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Tibetan Buddhism
Morning meditation — The aim of spiritual practice is to become.
‘The aim of spiritual practice is to become the friend of all beings, concerned about them and ready and able to help them.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — One develops compassion for the beings in Samsara.
‘One develops compassion for the beings in Samsara, avoids defilement and rejoices in virtue.’
Acharya Shantideva
Morning meditation — Be aware these five hindrances.
‘Be aware these five hindrances steal away virtue: restlessness and worry, aversion, sloth and torpor, attachment, and doubt.’
Arya Nagarjuna
Morning meditation — One should reflect and try to find out.
‘One should reflect and try to find out the difference between “self” and “others”.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — Noticing a single shortcoming in ourselves.
‘Noticing a single shortcoming in ourselves is far more useful than seeing a 1,000 in someone else. We can correct our own.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — Kindness and the good heart.
‘Kindness and the good heart are important at the beginning, in the middle and at the end.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — Empty awareness free from conceptual elaboration.
‘Empty awareness free from conceptual elaboration is a luminous glow beyond clarity or obscuration that pervades all samsara and nirvana.’
Sera Khandro
Buddhism now 