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Buddhist Saying: Do Not Just Memorize Sayings

Buddhist Quotes: Do Not Just Memorize Sayings

Do not just memorize sayings, recite words, and discuss Zen and the way based on books. The Zen way is not in books.

Even if you can recite the teachings of the whole canon and all the masters and philosophers, they are just useless words of no avail when you are facing death.

- Chien-ju

Buddhist Saying: Mindlessness Is Zen?

Buddhist Quotes: Mindlessness Is Zen?

Don’t say mindlessness is itself Zen; there is an even more recondite road herein. After you have overturned the donkey-tethering stake, as you hit the south you move the north.

- Huai-shan

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Buddhist Saying: The Unsurpassed Buddha Way

Buddhist Quotes: The Unsurpassed Buddha Way

Good friends, recite in unison what I say: ‘I vow to save all sentient beings everywhere. I vow to cut off all the passions everywhere. I vow to study all the Buddhist teachings everywhere. I vow to achieve the unsurpassed Buddha Way.

- The Sutra of Hui-Neng, adapted from the translations by Philip Yampolsky and A.F. Price

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Buddhist Saying: 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 Saying: Like a Cowherd Counting the Cattle

Buddhist Quotes: Like a Cowherd Counting the Cattle

If he recites many teachings, but

--heedless man--

doesn't do what they say,

like a cowherd counting the cattle of

others,

he has no share in the contemplative life.

- Dhammapada, 1, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Buddhist Saying: Be a Master

Buddhist Quotes: Be a Master

Master your senses,

What you taste and smell,

What you see, what you hear.

In all things be a master

Of what you do and say and think.

Be free.

Are you quiet?

Quieten your body.

Quieten your mind.

By your own efforts

Waken yourself, watch yourself,

And live joyfully.

Follow the truth of the way.

Reflect upon it.

Make it your own.

Live it.

It will always sustain you.

- from the Dhammapada

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Buddhist Saying: Wounded by a Poisoned Arrow

Buddhist Quotes: Wounded by a Poisoned Arrow

A man approached the Blessed One and wanted to have all his philosophical questions answered before he would practice.

In response, the Buddha said, “It is as if a man had been wounded by a poisoned arrow and when attended to by a physician were to say, ‘I will not allow you to remove this arrow until I have learned the caste, the age, the occupation, the birthplace, and the motivation of the person who wounded me.’ That man would die before having learned all this. In exactly the same way, anyone who should say, ‘I will not follow the teaching of the Blessed One until the Blessed One has explained all the multiform truths of the world’-that person would die before the Buddha had explained all this.”

- from the Majjhima Nikaya

Buddhist Saying: Equal in Ordinary People and Sages

Buddhist Quotes: Equal in Ordinary People and Sages

The substance of your mind is apart from annihilation and apart from eternity; its essence is neither polluted nor pure. Calm and complete, it is equal in ordinary people and sages, functioning responsively without convention. All realms of experience and all states of being are only manifestations of your own mind--do the moon reflected in water or images in a mirror have origination and extinction?

If you actually know this, you are fully equipped. The reason that the sages have manifested a spiritual presence to provide exemplars, and have set forth a wide variety of puzzling sayings, is simply to illustrate the fundamental peace of the body of reality, bringing about a return to the root.

- Shih-t’ou

Buddhist Saying: 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 Saying: 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 Saying: 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 Saying: 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 Saying: 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 Saying: 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 Saying: 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 Saying: 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 Saying: 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 Saying: 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 Saying: 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 Saying: 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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