‘Those who seek for the Tathagata should seek for the self. For ‘self’ and ‘Buddha’ are synonymous.’
Prajnaparamita
The Buddha
Morning meditation — Just as the self does absolutely not exist.
‘Just as the self does absolutely not exist, and cannot be apprehended, so also the Buddha. As the self cannot be expressed by any dharma, so also the Buddha.’
Prajnaparamita
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
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 — In consequence a perception of the Path will no longer occur to him.
‘In consequence a perception of the Path will no longer occur to him — how much less will he see the Path! “One who has finished with the Path”, that is a synonym of a monk who is an Arhat whose outflows are extinct.’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — In the absence of thought-coverings.
‘In the absence of thought-coverings he has not been made to tremble, he has overcome what can upset, in the end sustained by Nirvana.’
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