Buddhism Quote by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai

“To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good…

— Dōgen

Become a Buddha? The mind can't do it. The body can't do it. Only what can't become a Buddha becomes a Buddha.

— Ikkyu

If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.

— Dogen

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

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

“Having set ourselves free from the misconception of Self, next we must awaken our innermost wisdom, pure and divine, called the Mind of Buddha,[FN#190]…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“A ridiculous thing it is, in fact, that man or woman, endowed with the same nature as Buddha's, born the lord of all material…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.

— Dogen

Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to…

— Swami Vivekananda

“the teachings of the Buddha are always meant to be put into practice in order to remove mental afflictions and suffering, and not primarily…

— Karl Brunnholzl

All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon…

— Huangbo Xiyun

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not…

— George Saunders

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

— Bodhidharma