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• Morning meditation — The “Great Matter” is being awake.

  By Buddhism Now on 17 February 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The “Great Matter” is being awake. At its deepest level, being unawake is Dukkha — suffering.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Evening meditation — If the Way’s deep nature is misconceived.

  By Buddhism Now on 16 February 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘If the Way’s deep nature is misconceived, striving for tranquillity is vain.’

  Seng-ts’an

• Morning Meditation — Even when one is tramping along dark roads.

  By Buddhism Now on 15 February 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Even when one is tramping along dark roads,
  Those roads are themselves the Lotus Land.
  This is more than sufficient for rejoicing and praise.’

  Zen Master Hakuin

• Morning meditation — When you do zazen for awhile.

  By Buddhism Now on 14 February 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘When you do zazen for awhile, you come to see that all there is is that little shadow of a perception which has nothing to do with your thoughts; and just being able to see that, you are brought to a point of freedom from suffering.’

  Gien Inour Roshi

• The Peace Beyond, by Ajahn Chah.

  By Buddhism Now on 13 February 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  The Buddha didn’t praise those who merely believe others.

• Morning meditation — It is only because sentient beings mistakenly cling to having a mind.

  By Buddhism Now on 13 February 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Knowing mind as no-mind, neither ill nor medicine.
  In confused times all matters, though troubling, are not different.
  Originally nothing 0to grasp, why then use remedies?
  Though magic shows exist, they’re empty appearances.’

  Zen Master Niutou

• Morning meditation — What is mind?

  By Buddhism Now on 12 February 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Q: What is mind? How can I put my mind at peace?
  A: You must neither postulate a mind, nor try to compel a state of peace. That is what is called peace.
  The Treatise on No-Mind.‘

  Zen Master Niutou

• Morning meditation — The real function of zazen is.

  By Buddhism Now on 11 February 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The real function of zazen is not to rest the mind but to establish a base or foundation for it.’

  Rindo Fujimoto Roshi

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