BUDDHIST WISDOM

[Pravin Kumar]

See everyone as Buddha. This purifies the mind of ignorance and arrogance.

- Master Baek, "Polishing The Diamond



Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Even a strong wind is empty by nature. Even a great wave is just ocean itself. Even thick southern clouds are insubstantial as sky. Even the dense mind is naturally birthless.

- Milarepa, "Drinking The Fountain Stream"


If any recluses or followers do not understand objectively that the enjoyment of sense pleasures is enjoyment, that the unsatisfactoriness of their passing is unsatisfactoriness, and that liberation from their tyranny is liberation--then it's not possible that they will properly understand what the desire for sense pleasures is or that they will be able to bring anyone else to understand it. But if they do understand objectively the arising and ceasing of sense pleasures, their frequent unsatisfactoriness, and the way to freedom from attachment to them, they will be able to instruct other people to that end.

- Majjhima Nikaya


Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama