BUDDHIST WISDOM

[Pravin Kumar]

When everything is clean-clear in your own mind, nobody can create obstacles for you.

- Lama Thubten Yeshe, "The Bliss of Inner Fire"

Brief time have sons of men on earth to live. Let the good man herein much trouble take. Acting as were his turban all a-blaze. There is no man to whom death cometh not.

- Samyutta Nikya

There is no specifiable difference whatever between nirvana and the everyday world; there is no specifiable difference whatever between the everyday world and nirvana.

- Nagarjuna, "Mulamadhyamaka-Karika

If you students of the Way wish to become Buddhas, you need study no doctrines whatever, but learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything.

In the same way that someone in the midst of a rough crowd guards a wound with great care, so in the midst of bad company should one always guard the wound that is the mind.

- Santideva, "Bodhicaryavatara


- Huang Po, Zen Teaching of Huang Po