(87 quotes found)
“No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.”
Henry Miller
“There is Buddha for those who don't know what he is, really. There is no Buddha for those who know what he is, really”
Zen Proverb
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha
“The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.”
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
“Known they are, Subhuti, to the Tathagata through his Buddha-coginition. Seen they are, Subhuti, by the Tathagata with his Buddha-eye, fully known, Subhuti, they are to the Tathagata.”
“Not to know is to be a Buddha”
Japanese Proverb
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
“If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.”
Phil Jackson
