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• Morning meditation — Let the mind open.

  By Buddhism Now on 27 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Let the mind open. Observe, but not as someone watching. Try not to become involved in thoughts. Let them fulfil their function and then let them pass on, otherwise you will not be free.’

  Diana St Ruth

• Morning Meditation — If, bhikkhus, there were no not-born.

  By Buddhism Now on 26 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘If, bhikkhus, there were no not-born, not-brought-to-being, not-made, not-conditioned, no escape would be discerned from what is born, brought-to-being, made, conditioned.’

  Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

• Morning meditation — Please don’t become frustrated or depressed on account of this inability to control the mind.

  By Buddhism Now on 25 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Please don’t become frustrated or depressed on account of this inability to control the mind. You are seeing how the mind works. You are discovering how you work. That is why you are meditating.’

  Diana St Ruth

• Morning meditation — Remember that calmness and compassion.

  By Buddhism Now on 24 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Remember that calmness and compassion are an important part of living a fruitful, positive human life.’

  Dalai Lama

• Morning meditation — Observing these changes.

  By Buddhism Now on 23 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Observing these changes — these never- ceasing transformations — you know that you must perish. But do you also know that when you perish, something in you does not perish with you?’

  Surangama Sutra

• Morning meditation — In dealing with others.

  By Buddhism Now on 22 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘In dealing with others, fairness is paramount; in self-reflection, sincerity is crucial.’

  Classic of Spiritual Flight

• Morning Meditation — I ask that you watch it carefully.

  By Buddhism Now on 21 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘I ask that you watch it carefully, this mind when it’s empty, when it’s not concocting any desires for anything, not wanting pleasure or trying to push away pain.’

  Upasika Kee Nanayon

• Morning meditation — For us, to be alive is to practise.

  By Buddhism Now on 20 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘For us, to be alive is to practise. The question is our very life. If we hold it continuously, this is proof that we are alive.’

  Haechun Sunim

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