‘We might not believe we can do a Zen koan, but our life is a koan.’
Everyday Buddhism
Koan practice
Morning meditation — Although we might feel unequal to tackling a Zen koan.
‘Morning Meditation: Although we might feel unequal to tackling a Zen koan, our life itself is a koan.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Doing a koan is a bit like.
‘Doing a koan is a bit like being a fly trying to get through an open window.’
Trevor Leggett
Morning Meditaton — Taste the tea from the place which is both the highest and deepest.
‘The monk should remain deeply introspective, without making any mistake and taste the tea from the place which is both the highest and deepest.’
Sonhae Sunim
Morning meditation — Being lost among the causes of suffering.
‘Being lost among the causes of suffering is to abandon supreme happiness.
Why do you delight in unhappiness?’
Engaging deeds of Bodhisattva
Evening meditation — Concentration is dualistic.
‘Concentration is dualistic, needs an object and a degree of will. Awareness is more natural and encompassing and non-dual.’
Everyday Buddhism
Zen sitting is not some sort of operation to be performed. Trevor Leggett.
Leave your innumerable knowing and seeings and understandings, and go to that greatness of space.
Morning meditation — Just love this Zen saying.
Just love this Zen saying: ‘80% is perfect’.
Koan Practice
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