D T Suzuki says : “The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in
Matthieu Ricard says : “Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.”
D T Suzuki says : “Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.”
Nhat Hanh says : “Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.”
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…
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche says : “We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing…