Buddhist journal prompts for the end of the day

Where in the body did you feel the breath most clearly today?

After: Breath, an aspect of the body · MN 118 · The Body

Which of the five reminders was hardest to say, and what did it change, if anything?

After: Five things to remember often · AN 5.57 · Daily

Where did your mind most often go today, and what was it like to bring it back?

After: A mind hard to steady · Dhp 33, 35 · Daily

What did you learn by watching one habit's results instead of your opinion of it?

After: Know it for yourself · AN 3.65 · Daily

Of the three lines, which one asked the most of you today?

After: Three lines of instruction · Dhp 183 · Daily

Which of the eight visited you today, and how long did its effect really last?

After: Praise and blame pass through · AN 8.6 · Daily

What did you turn your attention to today, and did the old thought loosen its grip?

After: One peg drives out another · MN 20 · Daily

What did the ease of a clear conscience feel like today, if you noticed it?

After: The happiness of blamelessness · AN 4.62 · Daily

What did you notice today in the gap between seeing or hearing something and your reaction to it?

After: Merely the seen · Ud 1.10 · Daily

Was there anything nagging at you by the end of today, and where did it come from?

After: No regrets, then joy · AN 11.1 · Daily

Where in your life did you find too much, too little, or balance today?

After: Four things for this life · AN 8.54 · Daily

What did you wish for today, and what, if anything, did you do toward it?

After: Not got by wishing · AN 5.43 · Daily

What did it feel like to tend something today without checking whether it was working?

After: The hen who simply sat · SN 22.101 · Daily

Which of the six sources did you notice most behind your actions today?

After: Three sources of every deed · AN 3.34 · Daily

Was there advice you held back today, and what did you do with it instead?

After: First ground yourself · Dhp 158, 160 · Daily

What did one wanting do today when you delayed it, and what did you feel meanwhile?

After: Drops from a lotus leaf · Dhp 335–336 · Daily

Which was hardest to notice today: a feeling arriving, staying, or leaving?

After: Knowing feelings as they arise · AN 4.41 · Daily

When something hurt today, what did you notice being added to it, if anything?

After: The second arrow · SN 36.6 · Difficult Emotions

Which of the eight factors do you already practise, perhaps without calling it that?

After: Eight factors, one path · SN 45.8 · Eightfold Path

Which of the four truths felt most familiar today, and which felt strangest?

After: The four truths, one by one · SN 56.11 · Four Truths

What did you notice about the intention behind one thing you said or did today?

After: Intention goes first · Dhp 1–2 · Getting Started

When you came back to the breath today, what was the mind doing just before?

After: The breath as an anchor · MN 62 · Getting Started

Which item on the list of difficulties felt closest to your own day, and how did it show up?

After: Four truths, stated plainly · SN 56.11 · Getting Started

What kind of thought did you catch today, and where was it leading?

After: Noticing the kind of thought · MN 19 · Getting Started

Where in your day did you notice yourself straining or drifting, and what did adjusting feel like?

After: Strings neither tight nor slack · AN 6.55 · Getting Started

What did you watch change while it lasted today, and what was that like?

After: Arising, vanishing, and change · AN 3.47 · Change

What happened in your body when a grudge replayed today, and what changed, if anything, when you tried to set it down?

After: Hatred is not settled by hate · Dhp 3–5 · Daily

Did the 'would I want this done to me' check change anything you said or did today, and how?

After: What I dislike, others dislike · SN 55.7 · Daily

Where did you notice another being's flinch today, and how did it affect what you did?

After: Treating others like oneself · Dhp 129–130 · Daily

When did a good deed today have real warmth in it, and when was it just a gesture?

After: What outshines every good deed · Iti 27 · Daily

Who did you remember was the center of their own world today, and did it change anything?

After: Each holds themselves dear · SN 3.8 · Daily

Was there a moment today when others were hostile or grasping, and what happened to your own goodwill?

After: Loving among the hostile · Dhp 197, 199 · Daily

Which of the four qualities did you notice in someone close to you today, and what did you do with it?

After: Equals in four things · AN 4.55 · Daily

When today were you steady like the earth, and when were you stirred up, if at all?

After: Undisturbed like the earth · Dhp 94–96 · Daily

Which of the three moments of goodwill today came easiest, and which did you nearly skip?

After: A hundred cauldrons of rice · SN 20.4 · Daily

Who came to mind when you offered the wish, and what did offering it feel like?

After: Wishing all beings well · Kp 9 · Getting Started

Where did you notice the tightening of 'mine first' today, and what happened next?

After: Sharing even the last mouthful · Iti 26 · Giving

Which being did you wish well today, and what was it like to do so?

After: A wish for every being · Kp 9 · Metta

Was there something today you chose not to pass along, and what did you say instead, if anything?

After: Speech that brings people together · AN 10.176 · Daily

In a disagreement today, which part of the elephant were you holding?

After: The part is not the elephant · Ud 6.4 · Daily

Was there one thing you said today that was worth hearing, and what did you leave out?

After: One meaningful saying · Dhp 100–101 · Daily

When you checked your words today, which mark asked the most of you?

After: Five marks of good speech · AN 5.198 · Getting Started

Which of the four kinds of speech was easiest to notice in yourself today?

After: What right speech leaves out · SN 45.8 · Right Speech