A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself. — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Bodhisattva, would you take me by the hand, can you show me the shine in your Japan? — Steely Dan Copy Share Image
The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit… — Je Tsongkhapa Copy Share Image
The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is a fluid process, not something concrete that can be added up or measured. The warrior-bodhisattva trains with the attitude that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru,… — Daniel Levin Becker Copy Share Image
Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Some students went to Milarepa and said, we should stop living in caves and meditating because we should go out and help… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true… — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One… — Thrangu Rinpoche Copy Share Image
There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
“It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
