‘‘‘Then, good Gotama, what is the resort of Nibbana?’’
‘‘That question goes too far Brahman. No answer can encompass it.’’’
The Buddha,
Samyutta Nikaya
Pali Canon
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
Morning meditation — Comprehending form, not taking a stand in formlessness.
‘Comprehending form, not taking a stand in formlessness, those in cessation [nirvana] have left death behind.’
The Buddha
Itivuttaka Sutra
Morning meditation — When the mind is agitated, that is the wrong time to cultivate.
‘When the mind is agitated, that is the wrong time to cultivate the enlightenment-factors of investigation-of-states, of energy, of rapture.’
The Buddha
