‘This is quite clear and simple if we think of it properly. Shelter, food, companionship, friendship, fame, wealth, power — none of these things come from oneself; they depend on many other factors.’
Dalai Lama
Tibetan Buddhism
Morning meditation — Compassion, love, kindness.
‘Compassion, love, kindness, a sense of brotherhood or sisterhood, a sense of altruism — these are key areas for human development in the future as well as today.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — Please consider this.
‘Please consider this: right now, you have a body, a voice and a mind, don’t you? Of these, mind is the most important.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — Since awareness is timelessly present.
‘Since awareness is timelessly present, it does not come from anywhere or go anywhere.
It is not something newly created, nor something that ceases.
It is the Buddha — uncontrived, self-originated, and spontaneously perfect.’
Longchenpa
Morning meditation — How could I be unhappy about others being pleased?
‘How could I be unhappy about others being pleased?’
Acharya Shantideva
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
How to Lose Yourself (Book Review). Plus A Zen Reflection on Wuxin from The Treatise on No-Mind.
I have included an extract from Bodhidharma’s work here, as it is less widely known.
Morning meditation — I laugh to see what happens in samsara’s show.
‘I laugh to see what happens in samsara’s show.’
Words of my Perfect Teacher
Buddhism now 