What Is Meditation? Meditation encompasses many techniques, perhaps most commonly centered on mindfulness and awareness. These two elements — resting the mind and examining the nature of whatever arises — are the basis of all Buddhist meditation practices....

‘This mind-nature is the original source of all Buddhas. It is the names of all the sutras.’ Bassui Tokushō

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‘As long as we have belief or notion of a 'self', we shall naturally think that liberation will take a long time.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘Grasping at things is surely delusion; according with sameness is still not enlightenment.’ Sandōkai

‘The Buddha said that the assertion that all things are empty refers to nothing other than the awareness that they are empty of selfhood.’ Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

‘The beginning of this buddha-knowledge is the discovery of the wondrous law of the one mind.’ Zen Master Hakuin

‘A poem says: If in one morning we can completely extinguish our karma produced by ignorance, in the middle of the night the golden crow will fly across the sky.’ Kusan Sunim

‘Buddha nature, the self of all beings, is the simple truth as it is.’ Bassui Tokushō

‘Through meditation and awareness, we train the mind to become still, to see beyond surface appearances and the habitual patterns of thought that bind us to dualistic thinking.’ Everyday Buddhism