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I f a Bodhisattva comprehends the dharma of no self, the Thus Come One calls him a true Bodhisattva.


Buddhism quote 7897 |  Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese




T he Kingdom of Buddha is in this world, within which enlightenment is to be sought. To seek enlightenment by separating from this world is as absurd as to search for a rabbit’s horn. Right views are called ‘transcendental’; erroneous views are called ‘worldly’. When all views, right or erroneous, are discarded then the essence of Bodhi appears.


Buddhism quote 7898 |  The Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra,ch.2, translated by A. F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam.   See original Chinese




O nce awakened, they even more energetically continue to cultivate the Path. Steeping themselves in kindness and compassion, they grow in wisdom. They sail the Dharma ship across to Nirvana’s shore, and then return on the sea of birth and death to rescue living beings.


Buddhism quote 7899 |  Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese




W ithout being asked to do so, he becomes a good friend to each within the multitude of beings and carries their heavy karmic burdens on his back.


Buddhism quote 7900 |  Translated by Hisao Inagaki.   See original Chinese




H aving awakened great compassion for sentient beings, he kindly expounds the teaching, and endows them with the Dharmaeye. He blocks the paths to the three evil realms, opens the gate of virtue and, without waiting for their request, provides beings with the Dharma.


Buddhism quote 7901 |  Translated by Hisao Inagaki.   See original Chinese




H aving obtained the eye of wisdom, I43 will remove the darkness of ignorance; I will block all the evil paths. And open the gate to the good realms.


Buddhism quote 7902 |  Translated by Hisao Inagaki.   See original Chinese




H e indeed looks upon sentient beings as his own self. With such roots of virtue, all the bodhisattvas in the assembly had reached the shore of emancipation.


Buddhism quote 7903 |  Translated by Hisao Inagaki.   See original Chinese




H e upholds the Tathagata’s profound Dharma-treasury and protects the seeds of Buddhahood, so that they may continue to multiply.


Buddhism quote 7904 |  Translated by Hisao Inagaki.   See original Chinese




I f those who hold the name of Gwan Shr Yin Bodhisattva should fall into a great fre, the fre will not burn them, because of Gwan Shr Yin Bodhisattva’s awesome spiritual power. If they are being tossed about in deep and treacherous waters and call his name, they will quickly reach the shallows.


Buddhism quote 7905 |  Universal Door Chapter of the Lotus Sutra, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese




A ll tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.


Buddhism quote 7906 |  v.129, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese




W hen men or women laden with offenses who failed to plant good causes die, even they can receive one-seventh of any merit dedicated to them by relatives who do good deeds on their behalf. The other six-sevenths of the merit will return to the living relatives who did the good deeds. It follows that men and women of the present and future who cultivate while they are strong and healthy will receive every portion of the benefit derived.


Buddhism quote 7907 |  Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese




T he Buddha told Lord Yama, “The beings of Jambudvipa have stubborn and obstinate natures, difficult to tame, difficult to subdue. This Great Bodhisattva continually rescues such beings throughout hundreds of thousands of eons and causes them to obtain liberation quickly. For those beings undergoing retributions even in the worst destinies, the Bodhisattva applies the strength of expedients to extricate them from their own basic karmic conditions and lead them to understand the events of their past lives. But because beings of Jambudvipa are so bound by their own heavy bad habits, they keep revolving in and out of the various paths over and over as this Bodhisattva labors throughout many long eons to entirely effect their rescue and release.”


Buddhism quote 7908 |  Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese




M oreover, Universally Expansive, beings in the future may, while dreaming or drowsy, see ghosts, spirits, and other forms that are either sad, weeping, or worried, fearful, or terrified. Those are all fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, and relatives from one, ten, a hundred, or a thousand lives past who have not yet been able to leave the bad destinies. They have no place from which to hope for the power of blessings to rescue them, and so they try to communicate with their closest descendants, hoping that those relatives will use some skillful means to help them get out of the Evil Paths. Universally Expansive, using your spiritual powers, exhort those descendants to recite this Sutra with sincere resolve before the images of Buddhas or Bodhisattvas or to request others to recite it, either three or seven times. When the Sutra has been read aloud the proper number of times, relatives in the Evil Paths will obtain liberation and never again be seen by those who are dreaming or drowsy.


Buddhism quote 7909 |  Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese




I f a person has many offenses and does not repent of them, but cuts off all thought of repentance, the offenses will engulf him, just as water returning to the sea will gradually become deeper and wider. If a person has offenses and, realizing they are wrong, reforms and does good, the offenses will dissolve by themselves, just as a sick person who begins to perspire will gradually be cured.


Buddhism quote 7910 |  Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese





F or all the evil deeds I45 have done in the past, created by my body, mouth, and mind, from beginningless greed, anger, and delusion, I now know shame and repent them all.


Buddhism quote 7912 |  Ch.40, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese

44 此句「我」指普賢菩薩。
45 “I” here refers to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.




B ut the man whom the wise praise, after observing him day after day, is one of flawless character, wise, and endowed with knowledge and virtue.


Buddhism quote 7913 |  v.229, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese




M ind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mindwrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.


Buddhism quote 7914 |  v.1, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese




M ind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.


Buddhism quote 7915 |  v.2, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese




T ruly, an evil deed committed does not immediately bear fruit, like milk that does not turn sour all at once. But smoldering, it follows the fool like fire covered by ashes.


Buddhism quote 7916 |  v.71, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese




I t may be well with the evil-doer as long as the evil ripens not. But when it does ripen, then the evildoer sees (the painful results of) his evil deeds.


Buddhism quote 7917 |  v.119, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese




I t may be ill with the doer of good as long as the good ripens not. But when it does ripen, then the doer of good sees (the pleasant results of) his good deeds.


Buddhism quote 7918 |  v.120, translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita.   See original Chinese




T hese living beings, who do not recognize the fundamental mind, all undergo rebirth for limitless kalpas. They do not attain true purity, because they keep getting involved in killing, stealing, and lust, or because they counter them and are born according to their not killing, not stealing, and lack of lust. If these three karmas are present in them, they are born among the troops of ghosts. If they are free of these three karmas, they are born in the destiny of gods.


Buddhism quote 7919 |  Book 9, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese




K illing, stealing, and lust are the basic roots. From such causes and conditions comes the continuity of karma and retribution.


Buddhism quote 7920 |  Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.   See original Chinese




P eople commit nothing but evil and fail to cultivate roots of virtue, and so it is natural that they all go to evil realms.


Buddhism quote 7921 |  Translated by Hisao Inagaki.   See original Chinese



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