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• Morning meditation — According to legend, Maitreya (the next Buddha).

  By Buddhism Now on 25 August 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘According to legend, Maitreya (the next Buddha) will appear when the future ends.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning Meditation — Meditation creates havoc. It’s meant to do that.

  By Buddhism Now on 24 August 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Meditation creates havoc. It’s meant to do that. Where is the peace? We might have started meditating because we were looking for peace. And what have we got?’

  Corrado Pensa

• Morning meditation — To free oneself from bondage is easy.

  By Buddhism Now on 23 August 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘To free oneself from bondage is easy, but the way of freedom is difficult.’

  Kyōshō
  Bassui Tokushō

• Morning Meditation — Simply see the natural phenomena of physical and mental events.

  By Buddhism Now on 22 August 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Simply see the natural phenomena of physical and mental events as they arise and pass away, arise and pass away. They’re not you. They’re not really yours. You don’t have any real control over them.’

  Upasika Kee Nanayon

• What is the Desire-Image Samadhi?

  By Buddhism Now on 21 August 2024 • ( 3 )

  

  Although those who fear desire
  Rack their brains seeking liberation from it,
  It remains forever intrinsically pure.

• Morning Meditation — Don’t you see the difference?

  By Buddhism Now on 21 August 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Don’t you see the difference? The ‘‘emptiness’’ of the mind when you’re involved in activities is ‘‘play’’ emptiness, imitation emptiness. It’s not the real thing.’

  Upasika Kee Nanayon

• Morning meditation — In consequence a perception of the Path will no longer occur to him.

  By Buddhism Now on 20 August 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘In consequence a perception of the Path will no longer occur to him — how much less will he see the Path! “One who has finished with the Path”, that is a synonym of a monk who is an Arhat whose outflows are extinct.’

  The Buddha

• Morning meditation —Having the resolve of awareness.

  By Buddhism Now on 19 August 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Princely people,
  Having the resolve of awareness,
  Understood what it means,
  And that very moment
  Was the instant of the ending of time for them.’

  The Great Tantra of Vajrasattva

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