Attributes Quote by Frederick Lenz

The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

— Frederick Lenz

When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.

— Tenzin Palmo

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

— Bodhidharma

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

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a…

— Bodhidharma

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

— Bodhidharma

“As for the notion of Buddha nature, there is no reifying interpretation of it in any of the texts of the lineage of vast…

— Karl Brunnholzl

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

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“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

“The Buddha teaches that feeling is an inseparable concomitant of consciousness, since every act of knowing is coloured by some affective tone.”

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind…

— Gautama Buddha