‘Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so too this Dhamma-Vinaya has one taste, the taste of liberation.’
The Buddha
Udāna Sutra
Pali Canon
Morning meditation — Having transcended all conceptual views.
‘Having transcended all conceptual views, being pure and peaceful within, well liberated and independent, one goes beyond all attachment.’
The Buddha
Udāna Sutra
Morning meditation — Just as the great ocean has one taste.
‘Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so too this Dhamma-Vinaya has one taste, the taste of liberation.’
The Buddha
Udāna Sutra
Morning meditation — Where do mind and body fall away?
Buddha was asked, ‘where do mind and body fall away?’
He replied, “Vinnanam anidassanam anantam sabbato pabham” (consciousness, signless, timeless and everywhere brightly shining).
[The Kevaddha Sutta]
The Kevaddha Sutta
Morning meditation — The Tathagata has abandoned that clinging to views.
‘The Tathagata has abandoned that clinging to views, that adherence to views. Having seen what can be seen as it actually is, without grasping, without rejection . . .’
The Buddha
The Way Things Really Are.
The Sutta-nipata is one of the earliest texts of the Pali cannon, coming from the same period as the Dhammapada, before the monastic tradition was strong.
Morning meditation — In this very fathom-long body.
‘In this very fathom-long body, along with its perception and mind, I declare the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world, and the path leading to the cessation of the world.’
The Buddha
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This sutta uses the metaphor of crossing a dangerous flood (ogha) to represent transcending samsara. The Buddha’s method—neither striving too hard nor being completely passive—illustrates the Middle Way.
Buddhism now 