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Bhikkhu Inspirational Quotes (1291)

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The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.
Shunryu Suzuki
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I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.
Gautama Buddha
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But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit.
Gautama Buddha
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By defilement of mind, beings are defiled by purification of mind, beings are purified.
Gautama Buddha
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Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Gautama Buddha
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The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation.
Gautama Buddha
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The seeker is that which is being sought.
Gautama Buddha
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To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
Gautama Buddha
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It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west they originate within one's own mind.
Gautama Buddha
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Mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Gautama Buddha
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Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.
Gautama Buddha
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Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate.
Gautama Buddha
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By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.
Henepola Gunaratana
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One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.
Tilopa
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Be lamps unto yourselves be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.
Gautama Buddha
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Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.
Dogen
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How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the I, What should I do with this great demon?
Shantideva
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
Bodhidharma
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How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.
Gautama Buddha
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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
Gautama Buddha
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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body the sound of running water is his great speech.
Dogen
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Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
Dogen
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When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
Sengcan
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When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
Bodhidharma
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