Quotes About Wisdom

When you realize that whether something exists or not is nothing but the perception of your own mind, its external existence is seen as nonexistent and non-arising. Mahamati, there is no contradiction in my earlier and later statements.

Mahamati, to see things as they really are means to transcend 414 what are nothing but perceptions of your own mind.

Reading a few books can be helpful in pointing the direction - but again, these are all just fingers, fingers pointing to the moon.

The Buddha then repeated the meaning of this in verse: 1. "Distinguish units of letters / units of words and phrases / people who foolishly cling to these / are like elephants in a quagmire.

To awaken to this teaching is to have 'no-idea,' 'no-memory,' and 'no-attachment.' Not giving rise to delusions, this is the nature of suchness.33 View all dharmas with wisdom. Neither grasp them nor reject them. This is the way to see your nature and become a buddha.

the use of prajna in the title tells us this is a text that goes beyond the analysis of reality into discrete, knowable entities, such as those used by the Sarvastivadins. Thus, Zen masters ask their students to show them their original face, their face before they were born.

The Buddha asks us to see things as they really are. He does not ask us to cling to optimistic views of eternity or pessimistic views of annihilation but simply to examine our experience.

Reginald Hill

One of Dalziel's dicta for police and public was, if you can't be honest you'd better be fucking clever.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

How can someone be wise who isn't even remotely happy?

Unser Wissen vom Leben beschränkt sich auf den Tod.

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.

L'essentiel est de lire beaucoup. N'importe quoi. Ce qu'on a envie de lire. Le tri se fait après. Et même la mauvaise littérature est nourricière. La seule littérature stérilisante, la littérature prétentieuse, philosophisante, cuistre, est sans danger pour les enfants parce qu'ils ne peuvent pas pénétrer dedans. Ils la rejettent, comme ils tournent le bouton de la T.V. au moment des discours politiques. Ce sont des sages.

Vivre les malheurs à l'avance, c'est les subir deux fois.

Ce qui s'apprend sans peine ne vaut rien et ne demeure pas.

On ne sait jamais rien. Sauf ce qui est sans importance.

I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books.

JUNE 1 WHEN WE ARE able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions done in one's past, we strengthen ourselves and can solve the problems of the present constructively.

MARCH 23 FOR A BODHISATTVA to be successful in accomplishing the practice of the six perfections — generosity, ethical discipline, tolerance, joyous effort, concentration and wisdom — cooperation with, and kindness towards, fellow beings are extremely important.

It could be known only through six divine "evocations" that it brought forth into the world from its own being: wisdom, truth, power, love, unity, and immortality. These are not so much Ahura Mazda's attributes as they are the six substances that make up its essence.

As the ninth-century legal scholar Malik ibn Anas, founder of the Maliki school of law, once quipped, "This religion is a science, so pay close attention to those from whom you learn it.

The Wheel of Fear is as smart, knowledgeable, educated and spiritual as you are