‘In practice, the insight of not-two does not arrive as a philosophy, but as a felt shift in perception.’
Everyday Buddhist
Pali Canon
Morning meditation — The Buddha points beyond ‘is’ and ‘is not’.
‘The Buddha points beyond ‘is’ and ‘is not’, beyond ‘eternal’ and ‘annihilated‘, and ultimately beyond any view that divides experience into fixed categories.’
Everyday Buddhist
Morning meditation — Papañca is, in essence, the mental act of turning ‘just this’ into ‘me versus that’.
‘Papañca is, in essence, the mental act of turning ‘just this’ into ‘me versus that’. It is the engine that generates ‘two’ from what was never really split.’
Everyday Buddhist
Morning meditation — Dependent on contact, there is feeling.
‘Dependent on contact, there is feeling. From feeling, perception. From perception, thought fabrication. From thought fabrication, proliferation (papañca). From proliferation, perceptions of self and other arise—and with them, conflict.’
Madhupiṇḍika sutta<
Morning meditation — And what, monks, is ageing?
‘And what, monks, is ageing? In whatever beings of whatever group of beings, there is ageing, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, shrinking with age, decay of the sense-faculties—that, monks, is called ageing.’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — In the seen, only the seen.
‘In the seen, only the seen.
In the heard, only the heard.
In the sensed, only the sensed.
In the cognised, only the cognised.
Then, Bāhiya, there will be no ‘’you” in connection with that.’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — All conditioned things are not-self.
‘All conditioned things are not-self’ — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. This is the path to purification.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — The person who has no preferences.
‘The person who has no preferences and has overcome all views, what would he be attached to in the world?’
Alagaddupama Sutta
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