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• Morning Meditation — Non-self is nothing other than the stopping of.

  By Buddhism Now on 24 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Non-self is nothing other than the stopping of one’s own painfully narrow thinking, and the preserving of natural truth, which is called the eye of the teaching.’

  Zen Master Hakuin

• Morning meditation: It doesn’t cost any money.

  By Buddhism Now on 23 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘It doesn’t cost any money to be mindful.’

  Kōshō Uchiyama

• Morning meditation — Limitless are the practices of the bodhisattva.

  By Buddhism Now on 22 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Limitless are the practices of the bodhisattva; but first of all you should engage in the practice of purifying the mind.’

  Acharya Shantideva

• Morning meditation: If you talk too much.

  By Buddhism Now on 21 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘If you talk too much, the universe begins to yawn.’

  Zen master Iida

• Morning Meditation — Make the universe your shrine room.

  By Buddhism Now on 20 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Make the universe your shrine room. Make this place your meditation mat.’

  Zen Master Hakuin

• Morning meditation — Those who negate too much.

  By Buddhism Now on 19 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Those who negate too much fall into nihilism.
  Those who negate too little fall into eternalism.’

  Nagarjuna

• Morning Meditation: Keeping precepts.

  By Buddhism Now on 18 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Keeping precepts results in a good rebirth, making offerings results in future blessings — but not buddha.’

  Bodhidharma

• Morning meditation — Voidness (sunyara) has been taught by the Buddha.

  By Buddhism Now on 17 June 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  ‘Voidness (sunyara) has been taught by the Buddha to ward off the adherence to a self on the part of those who have gone astray through views and of those who seek the view of self.’

  Vajrapanjara

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