From the Sabbasava-sutta: “So soon as there springs up within him an angry, malicious thought, some sinful, wrong disposition, … he puts it away, removes it, destroys it, he makes it not to be.”
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Quote of the day 06/17/25
From the Sutra of Forty-Two Sections: “What is goodness? First and foremost the agreement of the will with the conscience.”
Quote of the day 06/15/25
From the Udanavarga: “Though a man conquer a thousand thousand men in battle, a greater conqueror still is he who conquers himself.”
Quote of the day 06/13/25
From the Fo-pen-hing-tsih-king: “All men should cultivate a fixed and firm determination, and vow that what they once undertake they will never give up.”
Quote of the day 06/12/25
From Katha Sarit Sagara: “Why should we cling to this perishable body? In the eye of the wise, the only thing it is good for is to benefit one’s fellow-creatures.”
Quote of the day 05/17/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The important but usually overlooked part of Christ’s short sermon, is the words ‘how they grow.’ The point is not the beauty of the flower, not the beauty of a Bach fugue but, how it grows. How does it grow? Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Bach attempted the task of explaining howContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/17/25”
Quote of the day 04/14/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Flow like the river, be firm as the rocks, pliant as the willow, eternal as the sky, transitory as the dew-drops, for man is all these, and more.”
Quote of the day 04/12/15
From R.H. Blyth: “Zen says, as in the Shinjinmei, all forms of dualism, right and wrong, good and bad, gain and loss – get rid of them all, forget them!”
Quote of the day 04/10/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Everything is bathed in love like the ether. The world is like a spider’s web; touch one part and the whole quivers.”
Quote of the day 04/09/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Though the self, the selfish self, must disappear, emotion remains and this emotion is love.”
