Bodhicitta Quote by Longchenpa

“Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation…

— Pema Chödrön

“We train in the bodhichitta practices in order to become so open that we can take the pain of the world in, let it…

— Pema Chödrön

Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the…

— Shantideva

“We awaken this bodhichitta, this tenderness for life, when we can no longer shield ourselves from the vulnerability of our condition, from the basic…

— Pema Chödrön

“Shortsighted people make [experientialism and social reform] opposites, mutually exclusive. [...] The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our…

— Abraham H. Maslow

“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

“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

Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated beings are…

— Maura O'Halloran

If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

“Live in the world, Yoga Science teaches, but be not of the world. Do not let yourself be defined or limited by that which…

— Leonard Perlmutter

“Tonglen practice has four stages: Rest your mind for a second or two in a state of openness or stillness. This is called flashing…

— Pema Chödrön