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.
Pali Canon
Morning meditation — What is the resort of mindfulness?
‘‘‘Good Gotama [Buddha], what is the resort of mindfulness?’’
‘The resort of mindfulness, Brahman, is liberation.’’’
The Buddha,
Samyutta Nikaya
Morning meditation: What is the resort of Nibbana?
‘‘‘Then, good Gotama, what is the resort of Nibbana?’’
‘‘That question goes too far Brahman. No answer can encompass it.’’’
The Buddha,
Samyutta Nikaya
Morning meditation — Good Gotama [Buddha], what is mind’s resort?
‘‘Good Gotama [Buddha], what is mind’s resort?’’
‘‘Mind’s resort, Brahman, is mindfulness.’’
The Buddha,
Samyutta Nikaya
Morning meditation — Those who cross this teeming sea.
‘Those who cross this teeming sea, hard with mighty waves.
Wisdom’s theirs the holy life lived, world’s end reached, gone beyond.’
Samyutta
Morning meditation — What joy there is in this radiance!
‘What joy there is in this radiance!’
Harada Tangen Roshi
Morning meditation — If anything is to be done.
‘If anything is to be done, do it with sustained vigour. A lax religious life stirs up the dust of passions.’
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — Unskilful deeds are better left undone.
Unskilful deeds are better left undone, as they torment us afterwards. Good deed’s are better done without regrets.
The Dhammapada
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