Sentient beings Quote by Takuan Soho Download Open image “The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.” — Takuan Soho ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sentient beings Two
Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things. — Sengcan Copy Share Image
...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . . — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas. — Hakuin Ekaku Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
“Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.” — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
“When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
“If you would know a man’s good and evil points, you should know the underlings and retainers he loves and employs, and the friends… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another. — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There is only… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
When a person does not think, "Where shall I put it?" the mind will extend throughout the entire body and move to any place… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
“Subsequently there ensues an epoch of complex, proliferating intrigues and conspiracies among the ranks of double agents, whose agendas become so densely intertwined that… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If you attain unsurpassable, complete enlightenment, all sentient beings also attain it. The reason is that all sentient beings are aspects of enlightenment.” — Dōgen Copy Share Image
To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.” — Mahavira Copy Share Image
I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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