Tag: Stones on the Path

When the Dalai Lama was asked: “How do things exist if they are empty of inherent existence?”, His Holiness replied: “The doctrines of emptiness and selflessness do not imply the non-existence of things. Things do exist. When we say that all phenomena are void of self-existence, it does not mean that we are advocating non-existence, that we are repudiating that things exist. Then what is it we are negating? We are negating, or denying, that anything exists from its own side without depending on other things. Hence, it is because things depend for their existence upon other causes and conditions that they are said to lack independent self-existence.”
~ From Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles.
~ Walt Whitman

To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things.
~ Dōgen

There is no such person as a Buddha. The Absolute is imminent in every man’s heart and this treasure of the heart is the only Buddha that exists. Those who seek the Buddha do not find him. This may be qualified into the statement that those who seek the Truth will find the Buddha and finding, comprehend not the Buddha, but the cause which underlies the phenomena of his life and teaching.

~ Elizabeth Barrington

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
~ Mother Teresa

Who is wise?
He that learns from everyone.
Who is powerful?
He that governs his passions.
Who is rich?
He that is content.
Who is that?
Nobody.
~ Benjamin Franklin

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.
~ Marchall McLuhan

An autumn evening;
It is no light thing
To be born a man.
~ Issa

Who is content with nothing possesses all things
~ Nicolas Boileau Despréaux

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
~ WIlliam Saroyan

Apply yourselves, day after day, year after year, to the study of the “unthinkable.”
~ Soen Nakagawa

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton