‘The khandhas didn’t originate from chance, time, nature, intrinsic being, God or without cause, but from ignorant deeds and craving.’
Nagarjuna
Tibetan Buddhism
Morning meditation — Life is impermanent.
‘Life is impermanent, has many misfortunes like a bubble in the wind; that one inhales after exhaling and awakens from sleep is wonderful.’
Nagarjuna
Morning meditation — Even the experience of one-pointed concentration.
‘Even the experience of one-pointed concentration without discursive thoughts is a manifestation of mind.’
Padmasambhava
Morning meditation — Once the illusory nature is seen in actuality.
‘Once the illusory nature is seen in actuality, then the solid character that we have attached to what we experience, simply vanishes.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — The indissoluble union of voidness and compassion.
‘The indissoluble union of voidness (sunyara) and compassion (karuna) is called ‘mind of enlightenment (bodhicitta). Sekoddeśa’
Tsongkhapa
Morning meditation — Limitless are the practices of the bodhisattva.
‘Limitless are the practices of the bodhisattva; but first of all you should engage in the practice of purifying the mind.’
Acharya Shantideva
Morning meditation — Those who negate too much.
‘Those who negate too much fall into nihilism.
Those who negate too little fall into eternalism.’
Nagarjuna
Morning meditation — Voidness (sunyara) has been taught by the Buddha.
‘Voidness (sunyara) has been taught by the Buddha to ward off the adherence to a self on the part of those who have gone astray through views and of those who seek the view of self.’
Vajrapanjara
Buddhism now 