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Brightly Shining Mind and other Buddhist quotes
The brightly shining mind is never absent but is colored by the thoughts and emotions that people put upon it. If you were to see the luminous freedom of this mind, you would cultivate it before any other, keeping it free from all attachments. ~ Anguttara Nikaya
The everyday life of people is like clouds and water, but clouds and water are free while people are not. If they would get to be as free as clouds and water, where would people's compulsive mundane routines arise? ~ Dogen, "Rational Zen"
There is no fire like greed and no crime like hatred. There is no sorrow like being bound to this world; there is no happiness like freedom. ~Dhammapada
The worthiest of past ages all sought the truth and did not deceive themselves. They were not like moths throwing themselves into flames, destroying themselves in the process. ~ Ta-sui
The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skilful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching
of the Awakened. ~ Dhammapada, 13
translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The king said: 'Nagasena, he who escapes reindividualization [rebirth], is it by reasoning that he escapes it?' 'Both reasoning, your Majesty, and by wisdon, and by other good qualities.' 'But are not reasoning and wisdom surely much the same?' 'Certainly not. Reasoning is one thing, wisdom another. Sheep and goats, oxen and buffaloes, camels and asses have reasoning, but wisdom they have not.' 'Well put, Nagasena!' ~ Milindapanha 32
The Five Precepts 1. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from taking life. 2. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from taking what is not given. 3. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from sexual misconduct. 4. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from false speech. 5. For the purpose of training I vow to refrain from intoxicants which lead to carelessness. ~ translated by Gil Fronsdal
The image of an extinguished fire carried no connotations of annihilation for the early Buddhists. Rather, the aspects of fire that to them had significance for the mind-fire analogy are these: Fire, when burning, is in a state of agitation, dependence, attachment, and entrapment �?both clinging and being stuck to its sustenance. Extinguished, it becomes calm, independent, indeterminate, and unattached: It lets go of its sustenance and is released. ~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu, 'Mind Like Fire Unbound'
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