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• Morning meditation — Knowledge and Ignorance are Both.

  By Buddhism Now on 21 November 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  ‘Knowledge and ignorance are both untrue, nothing but dream and illusion. The nonduality of true and untrue, that’s the state of buddha.’

  Longchenpa

• Morning meditation: I’m Sure You Know.

  By Buddhism Now on 20 November 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘I’m sure you know that many meditators and Zen masters get their insights during everyday life or in walking meditation after sitting.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — Meditation Techniques Are Easy.

  By Buddhism Now on 19 November 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Meditation techniques are easy to practise because they have a form. Awareness is harder because it has no form.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation: A Beginner to Buddhist practice.

  By Buddhism Now on 18 November 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘A beginner to Buddhist practice has more chance of awakening than someone who thinks they know it all.’

  Zen Graffiti

• Morning meditation — When you feel a certain way.

  By Buddhism Now on 17 November 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Papañca — is when you feel a certain way and your thoughts just go on and on without any direction, simply rattling on, one thought after another.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• The Embossed Tea Kettle: Orate Gama and other works of Hakuin Zenji

  By Buddhism Now on 16 November 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  For the first time, I realised the meaning of the words: ‘The eighteen great enlightenments of wonderful joy, and the little joys which are without number.’ In truth, I have not been deceived.

  Zen Master Hakuin

• Morning meditation — External Things.

  By Buddhism Now on 16 November 2022 • ( 10 )

  

  ‘A monk who does not direct his mind to external things is aware: My mind is not directed to external things.’

  The Buddha

• Morning meditation — Truth is Beyond Words.

  By Buddhism Now on 15 November 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Truth is beyond words, but the Buddha used them to teach, to point out the truth.’

  Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way

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