Buddhist Quotes

Hello all,

I thought I'd start a thread with quotes from Buddhist and related authors and hey, here it is! To kick this off I have a quote that's been attributed to none other then Albert Einstein. To me this quote exemplfies why I feel Zen training is essential to a Jedi's training. There is to me a very large Zen component contained in not only the teachings but also in the type of spiritual calm we wish to attain though our training.

\"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.\" ....
~Albert Einstein~

I wonder what he would of thought of Jediism?

I read a list of people on one site that 'claimed' they were 'Jedi'

Einstein was one of them but many other famous people including presidents and other famous scientists and artists.

I do agree that a big part of Jediism is very much connected to Zen and Buddhism generally.

Sorry I've no quotes off-hand to share, though I know there are some in various Bushido books I have

\"I would like to beg you, dear sir, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, some day in the far future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.\"

-Rainer Maria Rilke

-Chance

\"Do your work, then step back -- the only path to serenity.\"
-Tao Te Ching

-Chance

\"And you really are a gardener, aren't you Chance?\"

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Being There

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
~Buddha

Got two good ones, back-to-back here:

\"Morning, sickle in hand,
Noon, roaming the forest, gathering wood,
Now the evening moon, quietly shedding light on the path I walk.\"
(Commentary on the Nansen 'sickle' koan)


\"One must ask children and birds how strawberries and cherries taste.\"
-Goethe


-Chance

Today's calendar page. I REALLY like this one:
\"People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe - but usually no one else notices.\"
-Brad Warner

\"One day, Yang-uan called to his assistant: 'Bring me the rhinoceros fan.'
'It is broken,' said the assistant.
'In that case,' said Yang-uan, 'bring me the rhinoceros.'\"
-Zen Koan

\"The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait for a moment, or you'll lose your head.\"
-Hsueh-dou

\"In this world the wise one holds on to confidence and wisdom. Those are the greatest treasures; all other riches are pushed aside.\"
-Buddha

\"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.\"
-Buddha

\"Do you want to see the gold-faced Buddha? Through countless ages, he is always on the way.\"
-Zen saying

A skeptic walks up to a Zen master and asks: \"Is there life after death?\"
\"How should I know?\" the master replied.
\"But you're a Zen master!\"
\"Yes,\" the Zen master says, \"but not a dead one.\"

LMAO Loved that Chance.

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.

Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.

Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted

When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.

~Hazrat Inayat Kahn

If it leads to compassion, you know it's knowledge. Otherwise, it's just more information.

~Unknown

If it leads to compassion, you know it's knowledge. Otherwise, it's just more information.

~Unknown

\"There is no road to happiness, happiness is the road\"