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• Morning meditation — The aim of spiritual practice is to become.

  By Buddhism Now on 26 March 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The aim of spiritual practice is to become the friend of all beings, concerned about them and ready and able to help them.’

  Dalai Lama

• Morning meditation — One develops compassion for the beings in Samsara.

  By Buddhism Now on 25 March 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘One develops compassion for the beings in Samsara, avoids defilement and rejoices in virtue.’

  Acharya Shantideva

• How can we be unconditionally open? Taizan Maezumi

  By Buddhism Now on 24 March 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  So imprint the Buddha seal, not the human seal, upon your body and mind and penetrate this openness.

• Morning meditation — Be aware these five hindrances.

  By Buddhism Now on 24 March 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Be aware these five hindrances steal away virtue: restlessness and worry, aversion, sloth and torpor, attachment, and doubt.’

  Arya Nagarjuna

• Morning Meditaton — Because you’ve little faith.

  By Buddhism Now on 23 March 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Followers of the way, because you’ve little faith, you run about seeking your head which you think you’ve lost.’

  Zen Master Rinzai

• Morning meditation — Our minds and Shakyamuni’s are inseparable.

  By Buddhism Now on 22 March 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Our minds and Shakyamuni’s are inseparable — only the thoughts are different.’

  Zen Graffiti

• Morning meditation: When we sit in zazen.

  By Buddhism Now on 20 March 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘When we sit in zazen, all sorts of thoughts come and go that cannot be labelled delusion, confusion, or satori.’

  Harada Sekkei Roshi

• Morning meditation — The real suffering is not the sound.

  By Buddhism Now on 19 March 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The real suffering is not the sound of the cement mixer, but the stuff you create in your own mind—that is what dukkha is.’

  Ajahn Sumedho

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