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• Morning meditation — You take something that no longer exists and put it into your mind.

  By Buddhism Now on 10 December 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘You take something that no longer exists and put it into your mind and compare it with what comes up. If you have a shadow of something, can you hold onto that shadow? All of your perceptions, as they arise like shadows, have nothing for you to hold on to.’

  Gien Inour Roshi

• Morning meditation — The mind can be focused on one thing.

  By Buddhism Now on 9 December 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The mind can be focused on one thing — on the body, the breath, or whatever — without there being any obstacles like distraction or dullness.’

  Geshe Tashi Tsering

• Morning meditation — Fools think they harm themselves.

  By Buddhism Now on 8 December 2024 • ( 2 )

  

  ‘Fools think they harm themselves by putting others first.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — Awareness does not belong to anyone.

  By Buddhism Now on 7 December 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Awareness does not belong to anyone; it is not ‘my’ awareness or ‘your’ awareness. It is vast, boundless, and ever-present, beyond the categories of self and other.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — It might be pure meditation or concentration.

  By Buddhism Now on 6 December 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘It might be pure meditation or concentration (shamatha), but without the ethical base, there will be no substance to it.’

  Geshe Tashi Tsering

• Morning meditation — If I had set out for enlightenment, then I would wish to fully know it.

  By Buddhism Now on 5 December 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Manjushri: If I had set out for enlightenment, then I would wish to fully know it. But I do not strive after enlightenment, because enlightenment is just the same thing as this Manjushri, the Crown Prince.’

  Prajnaparamita

• In the heart of the Buddha’s teachings lies a profound caution.

  By Buddhism Now on 4 December 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  The danger is that insights, once grasped, can easily harden into words.

• Morning meditation — The Cloud of Noble Jewels Sutra says.

  By Buddhism Now on 4 December 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The Cloud of Noble Jewels Sutra says: bodhisattva is one who perseveres in all different types of actions without getting tired in body or mind. This is called the persistent perseverance of a bodhisattva.’

  Master Bojo

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