‘Even if you seem to be a beginner, if the mind is turned around for a moment to reveal its originally inherent qualities, nothing at all is lacking.’
Transmission of the Lamp
‘Even if you seem to be a beginner, if the mind is turned around for a moment to reveal its originally inherent qualities, nothing at all is lacking.’
Transmission of the Lamp
‘The nature of mind is luminous, the defilements are only temporary.’
Dalai Lama
‘We create burdens out of the foolishness of our thoughts.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Those who delight in heedfulness and look with fear on heedlessness will not slip. They are close to Nibbana.
The Dhammapada
‘No one would deny that the spiritual care of others is the gravest responsibility with which a person can be invested.’
John Snelling
‘We establish loving-kindness with ourselves by not creating burdens out of what we have done in the past.’
Ajahn Sumedho
‘I have eyes, ears, a nose, a tongue, and so on; why does the Heart sutra say they don’t exist?’
Tung-Shan
‘Monks, there are three kinds of suffering.
Suffering caused by pain,
suffering caused by conditioned existence,
and suffering due to change.’
The Buddha
Dukkhatāsutta