‘Followers of the way: There is no greatness or smallness in Prajna wisdom.’
Hui Neng
‘Followers of the way: There is no greatness or smallness in Prajna wisdom.’
Hui Neng
‘Enquiry, too, can become a sort of slogan, as blind faith can become a slogan.’
Trevor Leggett
‘When one is not yet near Nirvana, there are many other paths, but when one is near Nirvana, there is only a single path.’
Suramgama Samadhi Sutra
‘Selfishness is a terrible burden for the entire world. You can see that all the problems, all the conflict, are the result of selfishness.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
‘Thoughts arise temporarily in response to what you see and hear; they haven’t any real existence of their own.’
Bankei
‘We start directly from using our knowledge faculties rather than the believing ones.’
Ajahn Sumedho
‘Zen sitting is not some sort of operation to be performed. It is going into one’s true original nature before father or mother were born.’
Zen Master Bukko
‘For one whose tongue is ready with good words but whose heart is impure, Samadhi and Prajna are useless.’
Hui Neng