It’s remarkable how many worthy causes are being espoused by Buddhist groups these days.
Stephen Batchelor
The Illusion of Attainment, by Kusan Sunim
In the course of one’s practice it is as though one has to take hold of the hua-t’ou [Koan] two or three times anew.
Investigation of the Live Word, by Taego Pou
Do not do anything (good or bad) and do not even do this not-doing; then straightaway one reaches that place where there is no concern for external affairs, that vast and peaceful place where there are absolutely no obstructing thoughts…
How could I be unhappy about others being pleased? Acarya Shantideva
The Buddhas are delighted when sentient beings are happy and distressed when they are hurt. So by loving them I will please all Buddhas and by harming them I will injure the wise. For just as someone whose body is engulfed by fire finds no pleasure in desirable objects, it is impossible for the compassionate ones to be joyous when a sentient being is in pain…
False Thought, by Ch’an Master Lai-kuo
The strength of false thought is great, so you ought to be afraid of it. And it is necessary that you get away from it. You want to get away from your false thought, but how much strength do you have? Its strength is waterproof; your strength only amounts to a single drop…
Why should I be angry with him? by Acarya Shantideva
If someone does wrong out of confusion and someone else gets angry because he is also confused, who can be said to be innocent and who guilty?
Imagine that one person wakes up from a dream, Acarya Shantideva
Imagine that one person wakes up from a dream in which he experienced a hundred years of happiness and another wakes up from one in which he experienced only a brief moment of happiness. For both of these people their happiness will never return…
Suffering does have its good points, by Acarya Shantideva
If life were based upon what we liked, then not a single one of us would suffer, because nobody wants to be in pain…
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