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• Morning meditation — You too are perfectly protected.

  By Buddhism Now on 5 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘You too are perfectly protected. It just isn’t obvious to you. You are receiving all the care, protection and guidance and love of all the universe. You just haven’t been able to see it yet, but you will.’

  Harada Tangen Roshi

• Morning meditation — The true “original mind” has nothing to measure it by.

  By Buddhism Now on 4 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The true “original mind” has nothing to measure it by, there’s nothing you can know it by. In its natural state it is unshaken, unmoving.’

  Ajahn Chah

• Morning meditation — Practise till it is no longer practice.

  By Buddhism Now on 3 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Practise till it is no longer practice but a natural movement. Then, in a crisis, there is a sort of calm, an inner calm, a sort of coolness inside.’

  Trevor Leggett

• Morning meditation — In the simplicity of the Dhamma.

  By Buddhism Now on 2 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘In the simplicity of the Dhamma, we discover the true refuge that the Buddha so compassionately pointed to.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — The Buddha’s teachings do not call for repression but for illumination.

  By Buddhism Now on 1 April 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The Buddha’s teachings do not call for repression but for illumination. Awareness, when steady and unentangled, remains untouched by the arising and passing of thought. The key is not to eliminate thinking but to cease identifying with it.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — Dukkha is very profound.

  By Buddhism Now on 31 March 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Dukkha is very profound; as we explore it through the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths, we understand that being unawakened is itself dukkha. Dukkha, Cause, and Nirodha (Nirvana).’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — At the heart of the Buddha’s message is the notion of the Middle Way.

  By Buddhism Now on 30 March 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘At the heart of the Buddha’s message is the notion of the Middle Way — a path that avoids the extremes of indulgence in sensual pleasures on one side and severe asceticism on the other.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning Meditation — There are ‘four virtues’ of perpetual happiness.

  By Buddhism Now on 29 March 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘There are ‘four virtues’ of perpetual happiness and purity. This is why it is said that the one who comes to meditate truly and correctly, must sit facing the innermost sanctuary of truth.’

  Zen Master Hakuin

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