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• Morning meditation — The Buddha nature is neither created nor does it change.

  By Buddhism Now on 14 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The Buddha nature is neither created nor does it change. It is free from arising and ceasing. It is naturally pure, yet obscured by adventitious stains.’

  Uttaratantra

• Morning meditation — Before us, no thing, yet nothing lacking.

  By Buddhism Now on 13 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Before us, no thing, yet nothing lacking. Effortless wisdom naturally manifests.’

  Zen Master Niutou

• Morning meditation — This freedom is the end of suffering.

  By Buddhism Now on 12 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘This freedom is the end of suffering, not because pain and pleasure cease to exist, but because the mind no longer clings to them. It sees them as they are: passing phenomena within a vast field of awareness.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning Meditation — The field of boundless emptiness.

  By Buddhism Now on 11 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The field of boundless emptiness is what exits from the very beginning.’

  Hongzhi Zhengjue

• Morning meditation — If people who cultivate the path give up fame.

  By Buddhism Now on 10 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘If people who cultivate the path give up fame to enter the mountains but fail to cultivate these practices and, instead, make a show of deportment to deceive the faithful patrons, it is worse than seeking fame and gain, or passing an entire life in vain’

  Master Bojo Chinul

• Morning meditation — The Buddha often compared his teachings to a raft.

  By Buddhism Now on 9 January 2025 • ( 3 )

  

  ‘Buddha is not something to be attained but something to be realised in the very fabric of our daily lives.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — People are deluded in that they see only what looks like their own self in operation.

  By Buddhism Now on 8 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘People are deluded in that they see only what looks like their own self in operation, and fail to see their broad existence in which everything is simply coming together.’

  Gien Inour Roshi

• Morning meditation — As our awareness grows.

  By Buddhism Now on 7 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘As our awareness grows, the shadows of delusion fade, not by force but by the simple presence of light, revealing reality as it is — open, boundless, and free from obscuration.’

  Everyday Buddhism

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