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• Morning meditation — Mortal nature is Buddha nature.

  By Buddhism Now on 6 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Mortal nature is Buddha nature.
  Beyond this there’s no Buddha.
  Buddha is our nature.
  There’s no Buddha besides this nature.’

  Bodhidharma

• Morning meditation — The nature of mind is non-arising.

  By Buddhism Now on 5 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The nature of mind is non-arising,
  What need is there of knowledge and views?
  Originally there is not a single dharma;
  Why discuss inspiration and training?’

  Niutou Farong

• Morning meditation — Extraordinary people ultimately extend.

  By Buddhism Now on 4 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘A poem says:
  Extraordinary people ultimately extend in all horizontal and vertical directions.’

  Kusan Sunim

• Morning meditation — Each moment lived without clinging.

  By Buddhism Now on 3 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Each moment lived without clinging — whether it be to an idea, an object, a person, or anything — is a moment without anguish. When we truly see that, we also see that that is where liberation lies, liberation from sorrow.’

  Diana St Ruth

• Morning Meditation — The beginning of this buddha-knowledge.

  By Buddhism Now on 2 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The beginning of this buddha-knowledge is the discovery of the wondrous law of the one mind.’

  Zen Master Hakuin

• Morning meditation — Rather than searching for a distant place.

  By Buddhism Now on 1 January 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Rather than searching for a distant place where suffering does not exist, the Buddha invites us to investigate the nature of suffering itself, right here in the present.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• People think that the gift of the gab and being smart, are signs of wisdom, by Hakuin Zenji

  By Buddhism Now on 31 December 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  The Buddhist world is now filled with people of their sort.

• Morning meditation — Where do mind and body fall away?

  By Buddhism Now on 31 December 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Buddha was asked, ‘where do mind and body fall away?’
  He replied, “Vinnanam anidassanam anantam sabbato pabham” (consciousness, signless, timeless and everywhere brightly shining).
  [The Kevaddha Sutta]

  The Kevaddha Sutta

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