‘When we can’t wait for other people to honour us, we tend to put robes of honour on ourselves.’
Trevor Leggett
Trevor Leggett
Trevor Leggett (1914 – 2000), was one of the leading writers on Zen Buddhism in the West.
Compassion is catching by Trevor Leggett.
I felt a sudden rush of something in my heart.
Morning meditation — Mindfulness in words.
‘Mindfulness in words — trying to make an internal commentary of what one is doing — is just a kind of illusion.’
Trevor Leggett
Morning meditation — Begin to experience the truth of the Unconditioned.
‘Through the practice of the Buddhist Path, one can begin to experience the truth of the Unconditioned, not as a philosophical idea, but as a living reality.’
Trevor Leggett
Morning meditation — Mindfulness is not thinking.
‘Mindfulness is not thinking, this is one of the reasons it is so powerful’
Trevor Leggett
Morning meditation — The emptiness of the sea lets waves rise.
‘The emptiness of the sea lets waves rise, the emptiness of the mountain valley makes the voice echo, the emptiness of the heart makes the Buddha.’
Trevor Leggett
Morning meditation — When you empty the heart, things appear as in a mirror.
‘When you empty the heart, things appear as in a mirror, shining there without differences in them: ‘‘Life and death is an illusion, and all the buddhas one’s own body’’.’
Trevor Leggett
Morning meditation — Two extremes — blind faith without enquiry, and enquiry which is no real enquiry at all.
‘Two extremes — blind faith without enquiry, and enquiry which is no real enquiry at all; it’s just an endless sort of doubt, and lacks focus.’
Trevor Leggett
Buddhism now 