Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says : “Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth, which supports all living creatures indiscriminately, without distinguishing good from bad. The earth…
D T Suzuki says : “Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one’s own mind or soul is the fundamental…
John Daido Loori says : “Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures, with no reliance on words and letters. A direct pointing to the human mind, and the realization of enlightenment.”
Soko Morinaga says : “Always now – just now – come into being. Always now – just now – give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.”
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says : “To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Even if for the moment you cannot actually help…
Buddha says : “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
Buddha says : “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana says : “The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.”
Allan Lokos says : “Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.”
John Milton says : “The mind in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.”