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Bhikkhu Inspirational Quotes (1294)

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Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed-ask for more strength!
Sheng-yen
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You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation you could call that emotional balance.
Matthieu Ricard
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Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]
Gautama Buddha
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And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.
Gautama Buddha
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When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
Sengcan
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We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.
Shunryu Suzuki
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The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality
Gautama Buddha
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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
Gautama Buddha
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Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.
Gautama Buddha
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You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.
Shunryu Suzuki
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All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH.
Gautama Buddha
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I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me look at the moon.
Gautama Buddha
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Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
Matthieu Ricard
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Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.
Gautama Buddha
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Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord.
Sengcan
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For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.
Shunryu Suzuki
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To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.
Gautama Buddha
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If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey there is no companionship with a fool.
Gautama Buddha
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In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.
Shunryu Suzuki
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma
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It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.
Gautama Buddha
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
Bodhidharma
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What is the sound of one hand?
Hakuin Ekaku
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Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.
Matthieu Ricard
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