BUDDHIST WISDOM

[Pravin Kumar]

When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. When you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that nothing at all has unchanging self.

- "Actualizing the Fundamental Point" by Zen Master Dogen


What others call happiness, that the Noble Ones declare to be suffering. What others call suffering, that the Noble Ones have found to be happiness. See how difficult it is to understand the Dhamma! Herein those without insight have completely gone astray.

- Sutta Nipata


Wisdom comes out in the village of infinite nothingness; spirituality is found in the realm of unfathomability.

- Fa-Yen, Five Houses of Zen


How boundless and free is the sky of Awareness! How bright the full moon of wisdom! Truly, is anything missing now? Nirvana is right here, before our eyes; this very place is the Lotus Land; this very body, the Buddha.

- Hakuin Zenji, "Song of Zazen"