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what is your favorite buddhist quote?

ZendoLord84ZendoLord84 Veteran
edited April 2012 in Buddhism Basics
tell me,

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  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    I don't have one, but I like to keep reminding myself to 'let go'
  • AmeliaAmelia Veteran
    I tell myself, "Drop it," a lot
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    we have a thread on favourite quotations you might like to view...

    there's this one here...
  • HondenHonden Dallas, TX Veteran
    "Is that so?"

    Pulled from a zen koan.
  • ToshTosh Veteran
    Douglas Adams on the 1st Noble Truth:

    "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong, is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
  • NikkiGemGirlNikkiGemGirl
    "Pain in this life is inevitable, but suffering from it is optional."
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    "the body is subject to pain and suffering, that is inevitable, but the mind does not have to endure suffering."
  • SabreSabre Veteran
    edited April 2012
    "...."
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    edited April 2012
    "no thought is worth a gold star or a reprimand"

    (Note that he said thought not speach)

    ~Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
  • DavidDavid A human residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Ancestral territory of the Erie, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mississauga and Neutral First Nations Veteran
    I don't really have a favorite but depending on my state of mind, there is always something rellevant.

    "If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary,
    you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion."
    --Zen Master Lin-Chi

  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
    Where would I possibly find enough leather
    With which to cover the surface of the earth?
    But (just) leather on the soles of my shoes
    Is equivalent to covering the earth with it

    Likewise it is not possible for me
    To restrain the external course of things
    But should I restrain this mind of mine
    What would be the need to restrain all else?

    -Shantideva
  • shays860shays860
    "Trust nothing you hear, even from me, unless it is in keeping with your own common sense"

    paraphrased but it's something like that.
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    "Master your mind or be mastered by mind."
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited April 2012
    "no thought is worth a gold star or a reprimand"

    (Note that he said thought not speach)

    ~Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
    That's because speech follows thought.
    If you had not thought it, you would not have spoken it.
    thought precedes everything....

    the Buddha categorically states that, multiple times.....

  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    I looked at that post in the sense that a thought that remains in the mind and is not acted upon is useless, if the thought is skilful in nature anyway.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    I agree. The quotation says nothing about speech.
    But Jeffrey did.
    That's why I replied to that factor.
  • DairyLamaDairyLama Veteran Veteran
    "Shit happens"
    ( the first Noble Truth ) :D
  • ZendoLord84ZendoLord84 Veteran

    Know theyself, and thou shalt know the universe and god,

    - pythagoras.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    the thread title does specify BUDDHIST quotations, people....
  • zenffzenff Veteran
    “(Reverend Subhuti, do not fear these words, and pick up your bowl…)
    The nature of all things is like illusion, like a magical incarnation. So you should not fear them. Why? All words also have that nature, and thus the wise are not attached to words, nor do they fear them. Why? All language does not ultimately exist, except as liberation. The nature of all things is liberation”.

    (Vimalakirti in the Sutra named after him)
    For some reason I just love that:
    “All language does not ultimately exist, except as liberation. The nature of all things is liberation”.
  • yildunyildun Explorer
    "Shit happens"
    ( the first Noble Truth ) :D
    and shit travels downwards
  • Invincible_summerInvincible_summer Heavy Metal Dhamma We(s)t coast, Canada Veteran
    "Flowers, though we may be attached to them, still wither while weeds, though we may hate them, still flourish" -- Dogen

  • DairyLamaDairyLama Veteran Veteran
    I like the first 2 verses of the Dhammapada:

    1. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

    2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

  • DairyLamaDairyLama Veteran Veteran
    "Flowers, though we may be attached to them, still wither while weeds, though we may hate them, still flourish" -- Dogen

    :bowdown:
  • ZendoLord84ZendoLord84 Veteran
    were can I find sutta's online,

    I like the poetry of them,

    reading the stuff above,
  • misecmisc1misecmisc1 I am a Hindu India Veteran
    All conditioned phenomena are unworthy of attachment because all conditioned phenomena are impermanent, suffering and not-self.
  • DairyLamaDairyLama Veteran Veteran
    were can I find sutta's online,

    This is good for the suttas in the Pali Cannon, I'm guessing there's something similar for the Mahayana sutras?

    http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/index.html
  • DavidDavid A human residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Ancestral territory of the Erie, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mississauga and Neutral First Nations Veteran
    As a mother would risk her life
    to protect her child, her only child,
    even so should one cultivate a limitless heart
    with regard to all beings.
    With good will for the entire cosmos,
    cultivate a limitless heart:
    Above, below, & all around,
    unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
    Whether standing, walking,
    sitting, or lying down,
    as long as one is alert,
    one should be resolved on this mindfulness.
    This is called a sublime abiding
    here & now.

    Karaniya Metta Sutta.
  • shays860shays860
    were can I find sutta's online,

    This is good for the suttas in the Pali Cannon, I'm guessing there's something similar for the Mahayana sutras?

    http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/index.html
    http://www.thezensite.com/MainPages/translation_sutras.html

    http://www.abuddhistlibrary.com/Buddhism/J - Navigation Pages and A List of Books/Navigation Pages/Zen Buddhism.htm
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    edited April 2012
    "no thought is worth a gold star or a reprimand"

    (Note that he said thought not speach)

    ~Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
    That's because speech follows thought.
    If you had not thought it, you would not have spoken it.
    thought precedes everything....

    the Buddha categorically states that, multiple times.....

    Very likely talking about certain aspects of Buddhist practice. My lama says that we cannot control (absolutely) what thoughts come to our mind. By regretting negative ones there is a protective power. Lack of control of thoughts is obvious as otherwise we would not experience suffering.

    And then there is meditation which doesn't involve labeling thoughts as good or bad.

    I think the Pali Canon has more stuff about letting bad thoughts go, cultivating good, retaining good. Whereas some of the openness stuff like a presentation of right view believes that muddy water let stand clears. Of course I recall Dhamma Dhatu saying that jhana is when the stopper in the tub is removed and the water just all drains out.

    The lojong training is using thoughts to unstop the drain. Whereas mahamudra is about letting go of contrivance and hoping the heart energy will appear the wisdom mind which is obscured by notions of a world afflicting 'poor me'. Spontaneous cheering up...
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    edited April 2012
    Oh yeah, 'words mean what we say they mean'

    ~Bodhisattva Charles Dodgsen/Lewis Carol via Humpty Dumpty
  • mind7mind7
    "Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow because you might die tonight"

    Ajahn Brahm

    I think he had gotten it from somewhere, but that has always stuck in my mind
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