Coins Quote by Peter Matthiessen

“I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.”

— Qiu Xiaolong

“It is often said that the Buddha’s teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon.…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“The life of a man is like a ball in the river, the Buddhist texts state - no matter what our will wants or…

— Richard C. Morais

“He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy…

— Salman Rushdie

“I do not seek to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let [them] be content with such feats!”

— Hermann Hesse

“The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.”

— Derek Jarman

“Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.”

— Salman Rushdie

“A spiritual tradition is not a shallow stream in which one can wet one’s feet and then beat a quick retreat to the shore.…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

“that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it gets I wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind”

— Ikkyu

“The believer in Buddha is thankful to him, not only for the sunshine of life, but also for its wind, rain, snow, thunder, and…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“As I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of one of…

— john knowles

Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks…

— Philip Kapleau