All things Quote by Frederick Lenz

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

— Bodhidharma

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

— Bodhidharma

“pure mind is like the empty sky, without memory, supreme meditation; it is our own nature, unstirring, uncontrived, and wherever that abides is the…

— longchenpa

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

Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure, and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would attain…

— Huineng

“While you are conscious of being a Buddha, you are not truly a Buddha, because you are ensnared by the idea. You are not…

— Katsuki Sekida

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

— Bodhidharma

What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.

— Frederick Lenz

“Hence, [emptiness] is also not an object of [something like the] cognition of Buddhas, because they do not have [such a thing as] cognition.”

— Karl Brunnholzl

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” - Buddha”

— Buddhaghosa

The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.

— Frederick Lenz

The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

— Joseph Campbell