Quotes About Existence

Bhikshu, you should know that the Tathagata is the Dharma King. If the Tathagata says something then those words are not false, they are always true. If the Tathagata says something exists, that is true. If the Tathagata says something does not exist, that is also true. If the Tathagata teaches the Mahayana, it is true. And if the Tathagata teaches the Hinayana, it is also true.

Interbeing" is a word that is not in the dictionary yet, but if we combine the prefix "inter-" with the verb "to be," we have a new verb, "inter-be." If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow. In fact, nothing can grow.

Instead of saying that being leads to birth, we should say that being and nonbeing lead to birth and death. In our head, we have become used to the idea that when we are born we come into being out of nonbeing and when we die we go from being into nonbeing. If we remove the idea of being and nonbeing, there is no more idea of birth and death.

Rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd

Imagine two hens about to be slaughtered, but they do not know it. One hen says to the other, "The rice is much tastier than the corn. The corn is slightly off." She is talking about relative joy. She does not realize that the real joy of this moment is the joy of not being slaughtered, the joy of being alive.

Both death and life are happening at every instant in the river of our physical body.

En esta comida veo, con toda claridad, la presencia del universo entero sustentando mi existencia.

All phenomena are neither produced nor destroyed, because they are in a constant process of manifesting.

Whether or not one is alive depends on whether one is mindful.

To return home, to see into one's own nature, is the end aimed at by the practitioner, But how is one to see into one's own nature? It is necessary to bring light to one's existence, to live life, to render present and permanent the awareness of being. Put in another way, it is necessary that one sees the cyprus in the courtyard. If one does not see the presence of the cyprus in his own garden, how can one see into his own nature?

Your bodily form is not you. Be at one with life. Live eternally in the trees and grass, in other people, in the birds and other beasts, in the sky, in the ocean waves. Your skeleton is only one part of you. You are present everywhere and in every moment. You are not only a bodily form, or even feelings, thoughts, actions, and knowledge.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

I think it's scary to be alive, but also exhilarating and joyful.

The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.

There are many ways people think of God, and thousands of flavors of Christianity, Judaism, Islam... but they're always looking at something that's not measurable or you can't really see or control.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

There's Frog Jump on my GPS, so it's there. It's a real place.

We're just kind of dark as humans, generally.

In this big ball of people, I'm just one grain of sand on this beach.

God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.

There is something fundamentally fascinating about the mechanics, I guess, of the human body and where consciousness and mind exist, and what you can do with the mechanics of the body while keeping those intact, and where those two cross over.

The camera, I hate it. That's something I need to endure while working as an actor. In the end, because of fame, Gong Yoo exists. It's the driving force that keeps me going.