‘If a person wants to comprehend Buddhahood, they should purify their mind until it is just like empty space.’
Avatamsaka Sutra
Buddhist texts
Morning meditation — The Buddha Gate.
‘The precepts are a shortcut for entering the Buddha gate.’
Bassui Tokushō
Morning meditation — Ultimate Meaning.
‘‘The Buddha is always present so it is always the right dharma age. This is the teaching of ultimate meaning.’
Exposition of the Avatamsaka Sutra
Visual Awareness Does Not Perish — From the Surangama Sutra
The Buddha said, “Your Majesty, you have not perished yet. How is it that you know you will perish?
Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia
Some scholars use esoteric Buddhism and tantra as virtually interchangeable, generic terms covering distinctive developments all across Buddhist Asia from the third or fourth centuries C.E. onward…
A Meditative Life, by Bhante Bodhidhamma
Sitting meditation is only a part of the meditation. What the Buddha wanted us to do was to develop a meditative life—to know what we are doing at all times, leading a life of full-time awareness…
Teachings of the Buddha to his son Rahula talk by Corrado Pensa
Reflecting on intention, desire and action. by Corrado Pensa (33 mins. 2006)
The Four Noble Truths
And what is the ariyan truth of the arising of anguish? Whatever craving is connected with again-becoming, accompanied by delight and attachment, finding delight in this and that, namely the craving for sense-pleasures, the craving for becoming, the craving for annihilation — this is called the ariyan truth of the arising of anguish…
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