Chapter-23 Quote by Gautama Buddha

“Among all the sutras I have expounded, Lotus Sutra is the first and foremost! If you are able to uphold the Lotus Sutra, it…

— Gautama Buddha

“As long as we practice with a vow to help others, we are the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, and we become the leading figure…

— Dosung Yoo

On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene…

— Buddha

“The good men or women who keep, read, recite, expound and copy even a phrase of the Sūtra of the Lotus Flower of the…

— Shinkyo Warner

“If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not…

— Anonymous

The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is…

— Joseph Campbell

“The nihilistic doctrine is stated not only in the various Prajnya-sutras (the books having Prajnya-paramita in their titles), but also in almost all Mahayana…

— Kaiten Nukariya

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer…

— Nhat Hanh

“The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our most compassionate, our great improvers and reformers of society, our most…

— Abraham H. Maslow

“The Holy Teachings of Vimalakīrti (expertly translated into English by Robert Thurman). In that scripture, the Buddha states that the buddha-fields in which the…

— Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

“There are, on the other hand, very great men, very holy men, very pure men in every way, whose knowledge is wide and vast…

— G. de Purucker

“One only has the authority (right) of the intent [bhaav-satta] of doing pratikraman and praktykhyan.”

— Dada Bhagwan