Sayings

riverflow

Che said:

T shirt my neighbour purchased in NY

Stoicism: "It isn't the shit that happens to you that matters, but how you deal with shit." (apologies to my dear Seneca LOL)

Gui

silence is golden
so sayeth the augur
sweeten your coffer
knock off the palaver.
burma shave

Invincible_summer

"A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean." -- Zhuangzi

Che

"Able was I ere I saw Elba"
Napoleon Bonaparte while imprisoned in Elba.
Reputedly his shortest quote and palindromic.

Che

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less".
C. S. Lewis

Invincible_summer

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K Dick

Gui

“Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions.”

- Henry Miller, The Cosmological Eye

Che

I hope he's wrong

Nirvana

Don't know whether to "flag" that one as funny or as insightfull.

On second thought, Insightful is better, since he's wrong about hope. The Spanish for hope is Esperar, which also means to wait/await. Conveys a sense of quietude and calm cheer to me. If that is wrong or dead, then the hush in the symphony is also a cheat. But not so: it's an essential part of the music. Life is music and music is life and it's seasoned just so at certain times. You can't throw out one of the ingredients without ruining the full effect of the delicacy.

Also, without dreams, without imagination and projection, we'd still live in caves 'cuz nobody woulda seen "outside the box."

Ars longa, vita brevis est.

Bunks

Can't believe I only just discovered this thread! A beauty @che.

The ox is slow but the earth is patient - Mick Malthouse.

bookworm

To be, or not to be, that is the question

~ William Shakespeare

lobster

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you If you do not act upon them?
http://www.myrkothum.com/10-inspirational-quotes-by-the-buddha-teachings/

Bunks

I am not sure if I made this one up? I have heard the second part before:

Conceptually I own many things but in reality all I own are my actions.

Invincible_summer

"When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, 'This is certainly not like we thought it was.' " -- Rumi

Che

Is that the same as...."This wasn't in the brochure" @ InviSum

Jeffrey

No thought deserves a gold medal or a sanction (CTR)

AllbuddhaBound

Here is a silly one - This won't take long, did it?

misecmisc1

if everything is inherently buddha-nature, where are you going to in order to find it? - Adyashanti

TheEccentric

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music"-I'm not sure who.

Nirvana

How about a follow-up on TheEccentric's:
"Those who cannot hear the music are considered inane by those who do."
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"Those who hear the music are considered insane by those who cannot."

Che

"It's always Now".
Eckhart Tolle

Che

"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed".
Edgar Allan Poe

Invincible_summer

"Greed is so well organized that we call it economic prosperity.
Ill will is so organized that we call it defense and we make weapons and war.
Ignorance is so well organized that we study about everything except ourselves..." -- Ari Yaratne

Che

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong"
Mahatma Gandhi

Bunks

Apologies if already posted earlier:

Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
Love tells me I am everything.
Between the two my life flows......

Jeffrey

we say even though our practice is not perfect, as long as you are practicing our way, that is enlightenment itself...how you become a buddha.

Shunryu Suzuki

TheEccentric

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts"-Shakespeare

Jeffrey

Hurt yourself
holding a sword's blade!
Who's to blame?

– Buddhist Saying

Che

"Love is the absence of judgement"
Dalai Lama

Jeffrey

when you die
you do not become infinite

you were always infinite
so you cannot die

~jeff foster (not me)

EvenThird

“O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!”
― Kobayashi Issa

MaryAnne

The Middle Path -
One can love without clinging.
One can respect without worshiping.
One can care without overwhelming.
One can be sexual without being deviant or predatory.*

*MaryAnne ©

Jeffrey

Our zazen practice is not — is not to attain enlightenment actually — rather to express our true nature.

~Shunyru Suzuki

Bunks

One I have been pondering quite a bit lately:

What other people say about you is none of your business

Jeffrey

“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

Che

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship".
Buddha

EvenThird

“Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals of the
lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.”
-Kabir

Gui

I would rather sink to the bottom of the sea for endless eons than seek liberation through all the saints of the universe. Shih-t'ou

Invincible_summer

"I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored" -- Bill Bryson

jones

all of these are brilliant

EvenThird

“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
― Kabir

EvenThird

"Renunciation is not giving up the things of the world, but accepting that they go away."
-Suzuki Roshi

Che

"When you get there, there isn't any there there".
Zen Proverb

Che

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth, not going all the way, and not starting"
Buddha

Jeffrey

The accomplished hermit
hides in the town;
The immature hermit
hides in the mountain.

– Buddhist Saying

A good retreat helps
one to better advance
for better helping others

anataman

Che - After reading through this thread I can only say one thing to you - you inspired me and I was happy today!, I felt things that were not there, I saw things that were hidden, I heard things that no one told me about, I tasted and smelled the divine in everything.

Bless you!

Invincible_summer

"Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there." -- Rumi

Che

Namaste anataman, all my life I have been uplifted and inspired by simple short phrases that wise men have penned. I think we owe them a great debt for enriching and nurturing us spiritually and mentally and to the members of this forum who have had the love in their hearts to seek them out and append them here. Thank you all :om:

Jeffrey

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
But their echoes are truly endless.

~Mother Theresa

betaboy

I am that I am.
- God