Quotes About Wisdom

Enlightened beings cannot take away your suffering or give you happiness. If they could do this, wouldn't they have done so already?

A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life?

How do you think the Dharma is able to describe the death process in such detail? It's not a whole bunch of lamas sit around speculating on what might happen. It's because they actually go through it. Frequently.

soul friend". An Anam Cara may play the role of death midwife, helping a being through an important time of transition.

One of the last things Buddha said to his followers was that anyone who believed a word he had taught them was a fool—unless they had tested it against their own experience.

The important thing is to make sure our decisions are guided with compassion and wisdom.

I have lived with several Zen masters—all of them cats. ECKHART TOLLE, AUTHOR OF THE POWER OF NOW

Without question, the most important practice is bodhichitta. The wish to attain enlightenment to lead all living beings to that same state... This mind of enlightenment is based on pure, great compassion, which in turn is based on pure, great love. In each case pure means impartial. Without conditions. And great means benefiting all living beings, not just the small group of those we happen to like at the moment.

Four tools," Geshe Wangpo said, looking at

cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

Wisdom is what happens when our understanding of a thing deepens to the point that it changes our behaviour.

Compassion, wisdom, power. When you have compassion and power but no wisdom, this is idiot compassion. Compassion and wisdom but no power—what can you achieve?" he shrugged. "All three are necessary, together.

just because an idea is simple, it isn't necessarily easy to follow.

bodhichitta." "The wish to attain enlightenment in order to lead all living beings to that same state,

when I meet people—business leaders, entertainers, and others—they tell me that what seemed to be the worst thing that could ever happen to them turned out, with the benefit of hindsight, to be the very best.

Buddhism is about understanding our own true nature. What and who we really are.

When we understand the true nature of mind, we start to see these thoughts merely as thoughts instead of engaging with them. They arise, abide, and pass. They have no substance and certainly no power unless we git it to them.

My little 'bodhicatva,'" he will sometimes call me, a play on bodhisattva, a Sanskrit term that in Buddhism refers to an enlightened being.

not all sense is common.

bodhisattva, a Sanskrit term that in Buddhism refers to an enlightened being.

Don't try to avoid tightness by getting into a compromised posture; instead breathe through it! Not with force but with wisdom. Use your breath to create openness. Breath by breath, subtle change is possible. Each breath is a step to transformation.

It is not morbid, not depressing to contemplate one's own death. Completely the opposite! It is only when we have faced the reality of our own death that we really know how to live.

In the stillness we discover that there are other ways of knowing things than through the intellect.

May my every action of body, speech, and mind today be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.