‘Often people say they are meditating, but what they are really doing is thinking of nothing, and the mind is completely dull. I don’t think that is right meditation. It’s just increasing the dullness of the mind.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Tibetan Buddhism
Morning meditation — I often say we should think of our dharma practice as a hobby.
‘I often say we should think of our dharma practice as a hobby.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Morning meditation — While we are unenlightened.
‘While we are unenlightened, there is an element of shared or general experience.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — Please understand that all your experience is your personal experience.
‘Please understand that all your experience is your personal experience rather than somebody else’s. It is your experience, and thus is different from the personal experience of others.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — The great beings see with their wisdom eye.
‘The great beings see with their wisdom eye
All things like reflections of forms;
They do not become stuck In the mire of so-called objects.’
Arya Nagarjuna
Morning meditation — Virtue is so feeble.
‘Virtue is so feeble;
Vice is so powerful and terrible! How can good ever triumph over evil
Without the resolve to awaken?’
Acharya Shantideva
Morning meditation — Just as a thunderbolt.
‘Just as a thunderbolt
Can light a dark cloudy night for an instant,
An awakened being can sometimes
Inspire people to do the right thing.’
Acharya Shantideva
Morning meditation — It is so hard to find the time and tools.
‘It is so hard to find the time and tools
I need To help those with whom I share this world.
If I don’t seize the chance now,
It may never arise again!’
Acharya Shantideva
Buddhism now 