Philosophy of Mind Quote by Bhikkhu Bodhi

“Everyone already has a Buddha nature inside of them, but it is almost impossible to see and feel as our awareness is clouded and…

— Ian Tuhovsky

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find…

— Joseph Campbell

“LEARNING HOW to be kind to ourselves is important. When we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and…

— Pema Chödrön

“In the early Buddhist texts, the continuity of consciousness is likened to a flame that lights a candle, though nothing is transmitted from one…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.”

— Sylvia Boorstein

“The tool the Buddha holds out to free the mind from desire is understanding.”

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have…

— S. N. Goenka

Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Enlightened consciousness is often called Buddha-nature, as it is the real nature of Universal Spirit. Zen teachers compare it with a precious stone ever…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Buddha believed that the less you judge things—including the contents of your mind—the more clearly you’ll see them, and the less deluded you’ll be.”

— Robert Wright

“relying on our inner experience, which is the only direct way of knowing Buddha, we conceive Him as a Being with profound wisdom and…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Enlightened Consciousness, or Buddha-nature, as we have seen in the previous chapter, is the mind of mind and the consciousness of consciousness, Universal Spirit…

— Kaiten Nukariya