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• Morning meditation — True generosity arises from the recognition.

  By Buddhism Now on 21 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘True generosity arises from the recognition that when we give, we are not losing something, but participating in a flow of generosity that benefits both the giver and the receiver.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — To grasp the significance of pure lands.

  By Buddhism Now on 20 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘To grasp the significance of pure lands is not to imagine them as distant or fantastical places, but to recognise that they symbolise states of awareness that are available to us here and now.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning Meditation — When you turn within.

  By Buddhism Now on 19 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘When you turn within and drop off everything completely, realisation occurs.’

  Hongzhi Zhengjue

• Morning meditation — Enlightenment, as described in the Diamond Sutra.

  By Buddhism Now on 18 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Enlightenment, as described in the Diamond Sutra, is not a goal to be attained, nor a treasure to be claimed. It is the dropping away of delusion, the recognition of what has always been.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — The human mind thrives on notions of achievement.

  By Buddhism Now on 17 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The human mind thrives on notions of achievement. Whether in worldly or spiritual pursuits, we are conditioned to seek, strive, and accumulate. Yet, the Buddha’s teaching overturns this paradigm.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — The Buddha’s presence is not confined to moments of deep meditation.

  By Buddhism Now on 16 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The Buddha’s presence is not confined to moments of deep meditation or profound insight; it is alive in the ordinary and the mundane, in the very fabric of our daily lives.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — It’s astonishing how repetitive thoughts are.

  By Buddhism Now on 15 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘It’s astonishing how repetitive thoughts are. Sit quietly, and you will start to see it — the same worries, cravings, resentments looping over and over. This is not a failure of meditation; it’s the mind revealing itself.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — When faced with the forces of distraction and delusion.

  By Buddhism Now on 14 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘When faced with the forces of distraction and delusion — personified in Buddhism as Mara — he didn’t try to push them away or conquer them. He simply said, ‘I know you, Mara.’ Recognition was enough to loosen their grip.’

  Everyday Buddhism

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