buddha

No-one can own our Lord Buddha. That would be a foolish claim, but the roads that lead to him, the Way... That is a different matter. They are all filled with toll-gates, like the roads of Japan, and the monks collect the fees.

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: _ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.

In Buddha__ opinion, to train in staying open and curious__o train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs__s the best use of our human lives.

What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.

Said Buddha to the hot dog vendor, "make me one with everything.

The bad things, don't do them.The good things, try to do them.Try to purify, subdue your own mind.That is the teaching of all buddhas.

Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.

I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.

The next-to-last sentence that the Buddha is reported to have spoken as he was dying, before his final sentence of encouragement to his community, was __ransient are all conditioned things.

Be your own lamp, seek no other refuge but yourself, Let truth be your light." ~Buddha

Fat Charlie went back to his hotel room, the colour of underwater, where his lime sat, like a small green Buddha, on the countertop."You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.

The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

[Lena Lees describes from trance her experience of Kuan Yin]:__ see Kuan Yin. She is like Venus, statuesque and standing in front of a beautiful pink half-shell. Quickly, she walks in front of me, pointing the way. We are entering the mouth of a cave. It__ so interesting. I see stairs carved out of rock in the cave. We walk up the stairs to a door. I know somehow this is just another entrance, a doorway to another time, place. Perhaps at another historical time monks lived there. Now, I__ seeing a huge image, a beautiful statue of Kuan Yin right at the top of the mountain. There are stairs leading up to her and it is as if I__ right on location, standing alongside a group of worshipers. I feel the potency of her energy. In these places, perhaps China or Vietnam, there is a palpable sense of being immersed in and supported by her presence. There is a need by the people to know more, to pick up and accumulate wisdom. I__ suddenly feeling a need to be in that kind of energy. Suddenly it is Kuan Yin who is speaking: __ome believe I am in servitude to Buddha. However, Buddha doesn__ see it like that. We__e more like brother and sister. I__ showing, Lena, my abode, a place on earth where humans can visit me and be in my potency. Lena is looking at my statue and then at my form. There__ a difference. I come to people in many forms, forms constructed from people__ own perceptions of how I should come to them. And it is individual spiritual needs that create these unique perceptions. In the end, it does not matter what form I take.___uan Yin wants me to know that I can have the most divine life imaginable,_ whispers Lena, still very deep in trance. __he__l be here until the last soul passes off the earth. She remains in deity form to assist people in transcending their materialistic nature, to help them attain their highest spiritual level.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.