Buddhist Quotes - Page 27

Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as “the dancing mushroom.” According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

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

Inflowing thoughts come to an end in those who are ever alert of mind, training themselves night and day, and ever intent on nirvana

One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.

As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.

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.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions