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Buddhist Proverbs: The Whole of Humanity is One Human Family

Buddhist Quotes: The Whole of Humanity is One Human Family

The whole of humanity is… one human family. This planet is our only home.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Buddhist Proverbs: Why Don't We Have Time to Meditate?

Buddhist Quotes: Why Don't We Have Time to Meditate?

If we have...presence of mind then whatever work we do will be the very tool which enables us to know right and wrong continually. There's plenty of time to meditate, we just don't fully understand the practice, that's all. While sleeping we breathe, eating we breathe, don't we? Why don't we have time to meditate? Wherever we are we breathe. If we think like this then our life has as much value as our breath, wherever we are we have time.

- Ajahn Chah, "Taste of Freedom"

Buddhist Proverbs: Concentration

Buddhist Quotes: Concentration

Ta-sui was asked, "What is the point to concentrate on along the way?"

He replied, "Don’t be self-conceited."

From "The Pocket Zen Reader," edited by Thomas Cleary

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Buddhist Proverbs: Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Buddhist Quotes: Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Ch'eng-t'ien was asked, ‘How should I apply my mind twenty-four hours a day?'

He replied, ‘When chickens are cold, they roost in trees; when ducks are cold, they plunge into water.'

The questioner said, ‘Then I don't need cultivated realization, and won't pursue Buddhahood or Zen mastery.'

Ch'eng-t'ien responded, ‘You've saved half my effort.'

From "The Pocket Zen Reader," edited by Thomas Cleary,

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Buddhist Proverbs: Of These Two Wisdom is the Chief

Buddhist Quotes: Of These Two Wisdom is the Chief

Due to having faith one relies on the practices,

Due to having wisdom one truly knows.

Of these two wisdom is the chief,

Faith is the prerequisite.

- Nagarjuna, "Precious Garland 5"

Buddhist Proverbs: To Prosper and Not Decline

Buddhist Quotes: To Prosper and Not Decline

As long as the followers of the way hold regular and frequent assemblies, they may be expected to prosper and not decline. As long as they meet in harmony, break up in harmony, and carry on their business in harmony, they may be expected to prosper and not decline.

- from the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, translated by Maurice Walshe

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Buddhist Proverbs: Four Things Increase

Buddhist Quotes: Four Things Increase

If you're respectful by habit,

constantly honoring the worthy,

four things increase:

long life, beauty,

happiness, strength.

- Dhammapada, 8, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Buddhist Proverbs: Learn to Live in Harmony and Peace

Buddhist Quotes: Learn to Live in Harmony and Peace

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Buddhist Proverbs: An Antidote to Self-Grasping

Buddhist Quotes: An Antidote to Self-Grasping

Anything that acts as an antidote to self-grasping is Dharma practice. Whereas, even though we may engage in a great variety of practices that may appear to be spiritual, if they do not act to destroy our self-grasping, they are not Dharma practice.

- Gomo Tulku, "Becoming a Child of the Budda

Buddhist Proverbs: One Form Is All Buddhas

Buddhist Quotes: One Form Is All Buddhas

Each form, each particle, is a Buddha. One form is all Buddhas. All forms, all particles, are all Buddhas. All forms, sounds, scents, feelings, and phenomena are also like this, each filling all fields.

- Pai-chang

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Buddhist Proverbs: The Three Roots of Evil

Buddhist Quotes: The Three Roots of Evil

Monks, there are these three roots of evil. What three?

Lust is a root of evil, hate is a root of evil, delusion is a root of evil. These are the three roots of evil.

- Itivuttaka

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Buddhist Proverbs: Nothing at All Has Unchanging Self

Buddhist Quotes: Nothing at All Has Unchanging Self

When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. When you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that nothing at all has unchanging self.

- "Actualizing the Fundamental Point" by Zen Master Dogen

Buddhist Proverbs: No Fellowship with Fools

Buddhist Quotes: No Fellowship with Fools

If, in your course, you don’t meet

your equal, your better,

then continue your course

firmly,

alone.

There’s no fellowship with fools.

- Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Buddhist Proverbs: Consider Things Like Old Age and Death

Buddhist Quotes: Consider Things Like Old Age and Death

You might consider things like old age and death as negative, unwanted, and simply try to forget about them. But eventually those things will come anyway.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Buddhist Proverbs: Life is Too Short to Learn Everything

Buddhist Quotes: Life is Too Short to Learn Everything

There are too many things in this world to be learned, and life is too short to learn everything, so we should complete that which we have begun rather than dabbling in many things.

- Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, "Advice From a Spiritual Friend"

Buddhist Proverbs: Buddha's Treasury of Light

Buddhist Quotes: Buddha's Treasury of Light

I observe the Buddha’s treasury of light producing all oceans of lights: Whether sage or ordinary mortal, animate or inanimate being, none are not endowed with this body of light and openly demonstrating the function of this light. Root and branches are completely included, withdrawal and expansiveness are uninhibited, self-help and helping others are inexhaustible.

- Liao-an

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Buddhist Proverbs: The Moment of Attaining

Buddhist Quotes: The Moment of Attaining

The dharma is such that it cannot be attained by groping or searching about. In the realm of seeing, knowledge perishes. At the moment of attaining, mind is surpassed.

- Dogen, "Moon in a Dewdrop"

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Buddhist Proverbs: Dharmas Supreme Torch

Buddhist Quotes: Dharmas Supreme Torch

In Mahamudra all one’s sins are burned; in Mahamudra one is released from the prison of this world. This is the Dharma’s supreme torch. Those who disbelieve it are fools who ever wallow in misery and sorrow.

- "The Song of Mahamudra" by Tilopa, adapted from the translation by Garma C.C. Chang

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Buddhist Proverbs: Guard What's Won

Buddhist Quotes: Guard What's Won

Knowing this body

is like a clay jar,

securing this mind

like a fort,

attack Mara

with the spear of discernment,

then guard what's won

without settling there,

without laying claim.

- Dhammapada, 3, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Buddhist Proverbs: Peace and Dialogue

Buddhist Quotes: Peace and Dialogue

It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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