Respect the gods and buddhas, but never rely on them.
If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
In general, 'Buddha' means 'Awakened One', someone who has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and sees things as they really are. A Buddha is a person who is completely free from all faults and mental obstructions. There are many people who have become Buddhas in the past, and many people will become Buddhas in the future.
There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.
But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these.
Regard everyone you meet as the Buddha and you will know 10,000 Buddhas.
The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because of my people around the earth! They are the only hope. Only millions of buddhas are capable of creating the atmosphere for peace, for love, for compassion, for celebration.
You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering. " When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.
We're all buddhas. We just don't recognize it.
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for it. They are victims of our greed from whom we steal the most precious gift any of us has: life.
We don't need more Hindus, more Christians, or more Muslims - we need more Buddhas, more Jesuses, and more Krishnas - then there will be true change. Every human being has that inner potential.
The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
