...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . . — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit? — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
“If I say "A lotus for you, a Buddha to be," it means, "I see clearly the Buddha nature in you.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.” — Sakshi Chetana Copy Share Image
“We don't need to be the sun to illuminate the world; even the faintest light of kindness can make it shine.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.” — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature. — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
“According to the theory of Buddha-nature, the fact that the good become bad or the bad become good, does not imply in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping.… — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
We really have to get going," Sam said. "Can we leave the car here and pick it up later?" The monk said,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Wordless is not the same of expressionless. All phenomenon of the universe, audible and inaudible, tangible and intangible, sentient and insentient, are… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
“The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror… — Edward Conze Copy Share Image
These various forms appear different in shape and size, yet they are of a single essence. . . . The Sixth Patriarch… — Dennis Merzel Copy Share Image
If we do not control our minds with our Buddha nature, do not practice seriously, are not honest to ourselves and do… — Ching Hai Copy Share Image
An act of meditation is actually an act of faith--of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis… — Martine Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Lord Buddha never put much emphasis on belief. Instead, he exhorted us to investigate and try to understand the reality of our… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“Buddha-nature may be compared with the sun, and individual mind with the sky. Then an Enlightened mind is like the sky in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Enlightened Consciousness, or Buddha-nature, as we have seen in the previous chapter, is the mind of mind and the consciousness of consciousness,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Enlightened consciousness is often called Buddha-nature, as it is the real nature of Universal Spirit. Zen teachers compare it with a precious… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“8. Man is not Good-natured nor Bad-natured, but Buddha-natured. We have had already occasion to observe that Zen teaches Buddha-nature, which all… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as "I AM." YOU ARE… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Buddha-nature or real self, being the seat of love and the nucleus of sincerity, forms the warp and woof of all moral… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Buddha is our inherent nature—our buddha nature—and what that means is that if you’re going to grow up fully, the way that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Primordial wisdom [Skt. jñāna; Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་, yeshé; Wyl. ye shes] has many names, but in truth it refers simply to the inseparability… — Jamgön Mipham Copy Share Image
“In brief, what Centrists refute is any notion of real or absolute existence or an intrinsic nature that is attributed to any… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“The human mind has the potential for infinite development. If you can discover, even in a small way, that true satisfaction comes… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just… — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Copy Share Image
“Do either a brick or a blanket have Buddha nature? The answer is yes and no and maybe, in a Triangle of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“As for the distinction between "self-empty" and "other-empty," Dolpopa said that seeming reality is self-empty, while ultimate reality-Buddha nature or the nature… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
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