‘With awareness, we can see anger itself, feel its physical sensations, notice how it arises, stays for a while, and eventually fades.’
Everyday Buddhism
Buddha as Experience
Morning meditation: Delusion and awareness are not static forces; they are in constant motion.
‘Delusion and awareness are not static forces; they are in constant motion. In one moment, we may be lost in delusion, caught up in a story of self. In the next moment, awareness may arise, illuminating the truth and revealing the emptiness of that story.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Delusion might tell us that our anger is justified.
‘Delusion might tell us that our anger is justified, that the person or situation responsible for our anger must be corrected or changed for us to feel at ease.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The practice of wisdom involves seeing beyond the surface of experience.
‘The practice of wisdom involves seeing beyond the surface of experience to the underlying truths that govern existence. When we cultivate wisdom, we see that all things are impermanent, that suffering arises from attachment, and that there is no fixed, independent self.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The more we turn our attention inward.
‘As we practise, a subtle shift begins. The more we turn our attention inward, the more we come to sense that life’s deepest truths do not yield to control or analysis. Instead, these truths reveal themselves when we stop trying to define or grasp them.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Buddhist teachings as both a path and a reflection of awakened awareness.
‘This dual nature — Buddhist teachings as both a path and a reflection of awakened awareness — can profoundly transform our understanding of practice.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Realising the Unborn is not a matter of intellectual understanding.
‘Realising the Unborn is not a matter of intellectual understanding. It is a profound shift in the way one relates to existence itself. The mind, once caught in the cycle of craving and aversion, now rests in a state of peace.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Offers a profound insight into the nature of existence.
‘The Buddha’s rejection of both annihilationism and nihilism offers a profound insight into the nature of existence — one that transcends the conventional ideas of life and death, being and non-being.’
Everyday Buddhism
Buddhism now 