BUDDHIST WISDOM

[Pravin Kumar]

Your own practice can show you the truth. Your own experience is all that counts.

- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English"

Wisdom comes out in the village of infinite nothingness; spirituality is found in the realm of unfathomability.

- Fa-Yen, Five Houses of Zen

The realm of reality is as vast as cosmic space; it is the knowing mind of sentient beings that is small. Just as long as you do not become egotistic and selfish, you will be ever sated with the spiritual food of nirvana.

- Pao-chih


The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.

- Sutta Nipata


Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.

- Sutta Nipata


Defiled by passion, the mind is not released. Defiled by ignorance, discernment does not develop. Thus from the fading of passion is there release of awareness. From the fading of ignorance is there release of discernment.

- Anguttara Nikaya