Other Quotes
a. “If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.” The Buddha in The Dhammapada
b. “Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.” – The Buddha [from the Metta Sutta]
c. “What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.” - Zen Master Dogen
d. “To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.” - Zen Master Dogen
a. “If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.” The Buddha in The Dhammapada b. “Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.” Buddha in The Karaniya Metta Sutta
c. “As a mother would protect her only child with her life … cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.” Buddha in The Karaniya Metta Sutta
d. “Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.” – The Buddha [from the Metta Sutta]
e. “Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.” The Buddha
f. “May all beings have happy minds.” —The Buddha (The Buddha, Karaniya Metta Sutta)
g. “In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.” The Buddha [Sutta Nipata]
a. "I undertake the training rule to abstain from killing. I undertake the training rule to abstain from taking what is not given. I undertake the training rule to avoid sexual misconduct. I undertake the training rule to abstain from false speech. I undertake the training rule to abstain from fermented drink that causes heedlessness."
b. “One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.” The Buddha [Dhammapada, Verse 27]
c. “All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.” The Buddha (Dhammapada, verse 129)
d. “The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what’s pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.” – The Buddha (Sutta Nipatta)
e. “"If one, longing for sexual pleasure, achieves it, yes, he's enraptured at heart. The mortal gets what he wants. But if for that person — longing, desiring — the pleasures diminish, he's shattered, as if shot with an arrow. [...] So one, always mindful, should avoid sexual desires. Letting them go, he will cross over the flood like one who, having bailed out the boat, has reached the far shore." The Buddha, Kama Sutta, Sutta Nipata
a. “When we say that pāramitā means "transcendent action," we mean it in the sense that actions or attitude are performed in a non-egocentric manner. "Transcendental" does not refer to some external reality, but rather to the way in which we conduct our lives and perceive the world - either in an egocentric or a non-egocentric way. The six paramitas are concerned with the effort to step out of the egocentric mentality.” - Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
b. Dāna pāramitā: generosity, giving of oneself Śīla pāramitā : virtue, morality, discipline, proper conduct Kṣānti pāramitā : patience, tolerance, forbearance, acceptance, endurance Vīrya pāramitā : energy, diligence, vigor, effort Dhyāna pāramitā : one-pointed concentration, contemplation Prajñā pāramitā : wisdom, insight [As listed in the Prajñapāramitā sūtras, the Lotus Sutra and a large number of other Mahayana texts]
c. "Skillful virtues have freedom from remorse as their purpose, Ananda, and freedom from remorse as their reward." - Kimattha Sutta
d. "The sterling qualities distinguishing the man of virtue are generosity, truthfulness, patience, and compassion" Dhammapada (223)