True love is born from understanding.
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Gautama Buddha
Smiles, rainbows and a grain of rice. I could survive on that!
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Anthony T. Hincks
Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115)
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Swami Satchidananda
The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a...
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Stephen Batchelor
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
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Gautama Buddha
More Quotes By Bodhidharma
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
A Buddha doesn’t observe precepts. A Buddha doesn’t do good or evil. A Buddha isn’t energetic or lazy. A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can’t even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha isn’t a Buddha. Don’t think about Buddhas.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
