‘Seek good friends you can trust and whose views and way of life are like your own.’
Gampopa
Tibetan Buddhism
Morning meditation — Avoid a teacher whose heart.
‘Avoid a teacher whose heart is set on worldly fame or possessions.’
Gampopa
Morning meditation — Avoid earning your living in a way.
‘Avoid earning your living in a way that involves deceit or theft.’
Gampopa
Morning meditation — Avoid those who are harmful.
‘Avoid those who are harmful to your peace of mind and insight.’
Gampopa
Morning meditation — Wrapped up in Ten Million Needless Distractions.
‘Wrapped up in ten million needless distractions, I’ve mostly slept in the bed of terminal ignorance. Taking the result as the path’
Taking the Result as the Path: Core Teachings of the Sakya Lamdre Tradition
Morning meditation — Empty Awareness Free From.
‘Empty awareness free from conceptual elaboration is a luminous glow beyond clarity or obscuration that pervades all samsara and nirvana.’
Sera Khandro
Morning meditation — For just as Someone.
‘For just as someone whose body is engulfed by fire finds no pleasure in desirable objects, it is impossible for the compassionate ones to be joyous when a sentient being is in pain…’
Acharya Shantideva
Morning meditation — Those Wishing to Overcome Sorrow.
‘Those wishing to overcome sorrow in their lives and the suffering of others, should never turn their back on bodhicitta.’
Acharya Shantideva
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