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• Morning meditation — How do we practise non-clinging?

  By Buddhism Now on 1 November 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘How do we practise non-clinging? We do it simply by giving up clinging. It can be very difficult to understand non-clinging, however. It takes a keen wisdom to investigate it, to really see the depth of it, and then to see the wisdom of it.’

  Ajahn Chah

• Morning meditation — When we consider the Three Marks of Existence.

  By Buddhism Now on 31 October 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘When we consider the Three Marks of Existence—Anicca (impermanence), Dukkha (suffering), and Anattā (not-self)—we see that these insights do not merely describe metaphysical truths about the world; they are calls to a transformation in how we live.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — When we relinquish the need for intellectual certainty.

  By Buddhism Now on 30 October 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘When we relinquish the need for intellectual certainty, we open ourselves to the vastness of reality, which can never be fully grasped by the mind.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Returning to the Essence

  By Buddhism Now on 29 October 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  The true sangha, as the Buddha envisioned it, is a community of individuals committed to treading the path of liberation. Whether large or small, the role of the sangha is to support each other’s practice.

• Morning meditation — You must be as audacious as someone trying to grab the eyebrows of a living tiger.

  By Buddhism Now on 29 October 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘You must be as audacious as someone trying to grab the eyebrows of a living tiger or to snatch the whiskers of a flying dragon. Then you will know.’

  Kusan Sunim

• Morning meditation — Although we might feel unequal to tackling a Zen koan.

  By Buddhism Now on 28 October 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Morning Meditation: Although we might feel unequal to tackling a Zen koan, our life itself is a koan.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — In the vast landscape of the mind.

  By Buddhism Now on 27 October 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘In the vast landscape of the mind, two forces are constantly at play: delusion and awareness.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning Meditation — Follower of the way, respond to situations.

  By Buddhism Now on 26 October 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Follower of the way, respond to situations without, function, or locality.’

  Zen Master Rinzai

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