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Buddha Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki
- Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not…
- You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?
- The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional…
- If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.
- When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity…
- In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect…
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- Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does… — Philip Kapleau
- Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical… — Dalai Lama
- Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different,… — Shunryu Suzuki
- The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like… — Miyamoto Musashi
- I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came… — Swami Vivekananda
- Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an… — Swami Vivekananda
- Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that... And this… — Rajneesh
- I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute... — Dalai Lama