Buddhist Proverb

Right now, it’s like this.

Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.