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• Morning meditation — All efforts to reach salvation are inadequate.

  By Buddhism Now on 12 December 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘All efforts to reach salvation are inadequate, are moves inside samsara.’

  Shen Hui

• Morning meditation — Understanding zazen would mean.

  By Buddhism Now on 11 December 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Understanding zazen would mean understanding what my life is.’

  Shohaku Okumura

• Morning meditation — Followers of the way, there’s no guru anywhere.

  By Buddhism Now on 10 December 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Followers of the way, there’s no guru anywhere in the world who can match the wisdom of your own mind.’

  Zen Graffiti

• Morning meditation — If we contemplate these latest events alone.

  By Buddhism Now on 9 December 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘If we contemplate these latest events alone, we can see that this is a world of suffering, samsara, and we really cannot take refuge in it.’

  Diana St Ruth

• Morning Meditation: One will never come to see Dhamma by.

  By Buddhism Now on 8 December 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘One will never come to see Dhamma by means of rational thinking.’

  Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

• Morning meditation — We are powerless to change the past.

  By Buddhism Now on 7 December 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘We are powerless to change the past, but the moment has endless possibilities.’

  Zen Graffiti

• Morning meditation — When the mind is agitated, that is the wrong time to cultivate.

  By Buddhism Now on 6 December 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘When the mind is agitated, that is the wrong time to cultivate the enlightenment-factors of investigation-of-states, of energy, of rapture.’

  The Buddha

• Morning meditation — My mind is not concentrated on before or after.

  By Buddhism Now on 5 December 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  ‘My mind is not concentrated on before or after — it’s set free, undirected. I dwell in contemplation of the body, clearly aware. I’m joyful.’

  The Buddha

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