Buddhist Quotes

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