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Bhikkhu Inspirational Quotes (1294)

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The heart is the only book worth reading.
Ajahn Chah
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You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.
Wumen Huikai
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The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
Wumen Huikai
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The Great Way has no gate / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.
Wumen Huikai
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Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.
Wumen Huikai
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There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter And if vanities don't hang in my mind, I shall rejoice at any time and place.
Wumen Huikai
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One instant is eternity / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.
Wumen Huikai
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Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.
Ajahn Chah
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It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
Gautama Buddha
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To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.
Gautama Buddha
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
Ajahn Chah
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There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.
Yuanwu Keqin
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Everything comes from your own heart. This is what one ancient called bringing out the family treasure.
Yuanwu Keqin
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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
Dogen
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A person creates what they defend against.
Gautama Buddha
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The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.
Gautama Buddha
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A big part of pain is the subjective reaction of trying to revolt against pain. If it's there, it's better to deal with it. Most of it is I cannot stand it, and that component is enhancing pain so much.
Matthieu Ricard
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma
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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.
Gautama Buddha
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If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.
Dogen
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Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
Dogen
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Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice there is no other way of life than this way of life.
Shunryu Suzuki
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Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.
Taisen Deshimaru
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Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.
Gautama Buddha
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