My quotes for peace The quote book of Sylvain (En)

C ountless as the sands of the Ganges are the merits which come from performing the six perfect duties and vast number of similar practices. But since you are fundamentally complete in every respect, you should not try to supplement that perfection by such meaningless practices. When there is occasion for them, perform them, and when the occasion has passed, remain quiescent. If you are not absolutely convinced that the Mind is the Buddha, and if you are attached to forms, practices, and meritorious deeds, your way of thinking is false and quite contrary to the Way. Your mind is the Buddha! There is no other Buddha! There is no other Mind!

Huang Po quote, Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan)
Blofeld John, trans. The Zen Teachings of Huang Po, New York: Grove Press, 1958, pp. 35-36

I magine a child sleeping next to its parents and dreaming it is being beaten or is painfully sick. The parents cannot help the child no matter how much it suffers … If the child could awaken itself, it could be freed of this suffering automatically. In the same way, one who realizes that his own Mind is Buddha frees himself instantly from sufferings arising from the ceaseless change of birth and death. If a Buddha could prevent it, do you think he would allow even one sentient being to fall into hell?

What is obstructing realization? Nothing but your own half-hearted desire for truth. Think of this and exert yourself to the utmost.

Bassui Zenji quote, Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan)
Kapleau, Philip. The Three Pillars of Zen. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965, PP. 160-161, 164, 169.

A ll the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the Universal Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form nor appearance. It does not belong too the categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measures, traces, and comparisons.

Huang Po quote, Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan)
Huang Po, Blofeld John, trans. The Zen Teachings of Huang Po, New York: Grove Press, 1958, pp. 29-30

I f you would free yourself from the sufferings of birth and death, you must learn the direct way to become a Buddha. This way is no other than the realization of your own Mind … If you want to realize your own Mind, you must first of all look into the source from which thoughts flow. Sleeping and working, standing and sitting, profoundly ask yourself, 'What is my own Mind," with an intense yearning to resolve this question. This searching of one's own Mind leads ultimately to enlightenment.

Bassui Zenji quote, Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan)
Kapleau, Philip. The Three Pillars of Zen. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965, PP. 160-161, 164, 169.

A teacher of old said, If the beginning is not right, a thousand practices will be useless.
How true these words are! Practice of the way depends on whether the guiding master is a true teacher or not.
The disciple is like wood, and the teacher resembles a craftsman. Even if the wood is good, without a skilled craftsman its extraordinary beauty is not revealed. Even if the wood is bent, placed in skilled hands its splendid merits immediately appear. By this you should know that realization is genuine or false depending on whether the teacher is true or incompetent.

Eihei Dogen quote, Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan)
Tanahashi' Kazuaki, ed. Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985, pp. 34-35.

T hat One is called Prana,
The Supreme force that controls and regulates everything.
He gives the power of breath to every creature.
Master of all living beings,
Container of all creation,
He can be known through silence, meditation, and the practice of yoga.

The Vishnu Sahasranam quote, Hinduism
Jonathan Star, the Inner Treasure, Tarcher Putnam

T hat One is called Shiva,
The Radiant One.
Ever-free, without death or decay,
He is the highest goal of liberated ones.
Witnessing everything without aid or instrument,
Steady, immovable, and changeless,
He is the source of all existence, the one attainable through yoga.

The Vishnu Sahasranam quote, Hinduism
Jonathan Star, the Inner Treasure, Tarcher Putnam

I am neither created nor uncreated, for I have always been here.
I am neither deluded nor undeluded, for I have always been here.
I am neither of light nor of darkness, for I have always been here.
I am the Bliss, I am the Truth, I am the Boundless Sky.

How can I speak of having desires or not having desires?
How can I speak about attachment or non-attachment?
How can I speak about God as being real or unreal?
I am the Bliss, I am the Truth, I am the Boundless Sky.

That One is everything-
How can I say it is one?
How can I say it is more than one?
How can I say it is eternal or non eternal?
I am the Bliss, I am the Truth, I am the Boundless Sky.

It is neither solid nor subtle.
Neither appearing nor disappearing.
It is without beginning, middle, or end.
It is neither above nor below.
This is the secret of the Ultimate Truth.
I am the Bliss, I am the Truth, I am the Boundless Sky.

All your senses are like clouds;
All they show is an endless mirage.
The Radiant One is neither bound nor free.
I am the Bliss, I am the Truth, I am the Boundless Sky.

Dear one, I am not unknowable nor hidden.
I am not imperceivable nor lost.
I am not near nor far.
I am the Bliss, I am the Truth,
I am the Boundless Sky.

[…]

I have no actions that bring regret or misery.
I have no thoughts that bring pain or suffering.
I have no sense of "me" or "mine."
I am the Bliss, I am the Truth, I am the Boundless Sky.

Avadhuta Gita

The Avadhuta Gita quote, Hinduism
Jonathan Star, the Inner Treasure, Tarcher Putnam.

A ll your senses are like clouds; All they show is an endless mirage.

The Avadhuta Gita quote, Hinduism
Jonathan Star, the Inner Treasure, Tarcher Putnam.

T he Supreme Lord dwells in the heart of all beings, and by
His magic power of illusion
He causes them to move about like wooden dolls on a spinning wheel.

Give your whole heart to that Supreme Lord, seek refuge in Him alone;
By His Grace you will find perfect peace and the abode of immortal life.

Go deeper and deeper within yourself until nothing is left-then fight!
No one on earth is more dear to me than you.
That is why I tell you all this …

Abandon all hope of gain from this world and take refuge in me alone;
I will wash away your sins and free you from every evil.
You will never grieve again,

Fix your mind on me, think of yourself as me, worship me, sacrifice to me, honor me as your own Self, and you will surely come to me. This I promise you, for you are dear to me …

Arjuna! Have you heard me? Have my words hit their mark?

The Bhagavat Gita quote, Hinduism
Chapter 18, translated by Jonathan Star and Julle Lal, the Inner Treasure, Tarcher Putnam.

T his vision you have seen
is indeed rare;
even the gods are ever-wishing for such a sight.

Not through study of the scriptures, austerities, charity, or sacrifice
can I be seen as you have seen me.

0 Arjuna, only by the
unswerving love of the heart
can my supreme state be seen,
and known, and attained.

The Bhagavat Gita quote, Hinduism
Chapter 11, translated by Jonathan Star and Julle Lal, the Inner Treasure, Tarcher Putnam.

I see your infinite forma
Forms, bellies, faces, and eyes everywhere.
I see no beginning, middle, or end.
0 Lord of the Universe, you are everything!

The Bhagavat Gita quote, Hinduism
Chapter 11, translated by Jonathan Star and Julle Lal, the Inner Treasure, Tarcher Putnam.

S ee the whole of this universe,
the movable and immovable,
and whatever else you wish to see, unified, as one, in my body.

The Bhagavat Gita quote, Hinduism
Chapter 11, translated by Jonathan Star and Julle Lal, the Inner Treasure, Tarcher Putnam.

D welling in every heart,
the Self is the Lord of all,
the seer of all,
the source and goal of all.
The Self is not outer awareness,
It is not inner awareness,
Nor is it the suspension of awareness.
It is not knowing,
It is not unknowing,
Nor is it knowingness itself
It cannot be seen nor grasped,
It cannot be contained.
It is beyond all expression and beyond
all thought.
It is indefinable.

The only way to know it is to become it.

It is the final resting place of all activity,
silent and unchanging,
the Supreme Good,
One without a second.
It is the Supreme Self
It, above all else, should be known.

The Upanishads quote, Hinduism
Mandukya Upanishad

T hough the Infinite One is without color,
He colors the entire universe;
Though immortal,
He is born, and lives, and dies.
That One is all that was, and is, and will be,
Yet He is always the same.

He is the Supreme, Unchanging, Absolute.

He becomes the fire, the sun,
The wind, and the moon.
He becomes the starry heavens,
And the vast waters, giving life to all.

He becomes the woman, the man,
The youth, and the maiden too.
He becomes the old fellow
Tottering on his staff.
He becomes every face
Looking in every direction.

He becomes the blue butterfly,
The green parrot with red eyes.
He becomes lightning, the seasons,
The endless seas.

Without birth or death,
Beyond all time and space,
He is the One from whom
All the worlds are born.

The Upanishads quote, Hinduism
Shvetashvatara Upanishad

I n the beginning
There was neither existence nor nonexistence,
Neither sky nor heaven beyond …

That One breathed, without breath,
By his own breathless power.

The first born was the Creative Will,
The primordial seed of the mind.
All else followed.
The sages, searching for the truth within themselves,
Discovered the eternal bond between the seen and unseen.
This bond was an endless line stretched across the heavens.
What was above?
What was below?
Primal seeds were sprouting, mighty forces were moving;
Pulsation from below, pure energy above.

Who here knows? Who can say for sure? …
When it began and from where it came-this creation?
The gods came afterwards
So who really knows?

From where this creation came,
By what means it was formed,
Only He who watches from the highest heaven knows
or perhaps even He does not know!

The Rig Veda quote, Hinduism
Rig Veda, Book X, 129

W hen the mysterious unity between the soul and the Divine becomes clear, you will realize that you are none other than God. You will see all your actions as His actions; all your features as His features; all your breaths as His breath.

Ibn 'Arabi quote, Islam, Sufism
Manheim, Ralph, trans. Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 174-175.

S ubhuti delights himself in the practice of silence and tranquility.

The Maha Prajna Paramita quote, Buddhism, Mahayana
Diamond Sutra, 9, in Dwight Goddard, A Buddhist bible

T o become a saint of God, you must covet nothing in this world or the next and you must give yourself entirely to God and turn your face to Him. To desire this world is turning away from God for the sake of what is transitory. To covet the next world means turning away from God for the sake of what is everlasting.

Others Sufis Teaching quote, Islam, Sufism
Ibrahim Adham, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.182

B efore the time of Prayer comes, the servant must be in a state of preparation and his attitude must be that which is essential for prayer, namely, a state of meditation and recollection, free-from wandering thoughts and consideration or remembrance of anything save God alone. Those who enter in this way upon prayer, with heart intent only upon God, will proceed from prayer to prayer in that same state of recollection and will remain in that state after they have ceased to pray.

Others Sufis Teaching quote, Islam, Sufism
al-Sarraj, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.159

T he disciple's attempt to purify the heart is like the person ordered to uproot a tree. However much he reflects and struggles to do so, he is unable. So he says to himself, "I'll wait until I'm more powerful and then uproot it." But the longer he waits and leaves the tree to grow, the larger and stronger it becomes while he only becomes weaker, and its uprooting becomes more difficult.

Others Sufis Teaching quote, Islam, Sufism
Abu'Uthman al-Maghribi, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.156

W e must always be in a state of preparation. Preparation is the art of staying awake. If you are awake, then one day you may see into the real world. You cannot expect to come into that world if you walk around like a sleepwalker in a dream. You cannot wake up by reading books that tell you you are asleep. You may not even wake up just because a teacher tells you that you are asleep. You can only wake up if you want to, and so begin to work on yourself to cut away all the rubbish in order to come upon the nature of who and what you are.

Others Sufis Teaching quote, Islam, Sufism
Reshad Field, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.154

M aturity cannot be achieved alone. There is a need for guidance and discipline. The path is unknown, the night is dark, and the road is full of danger. Dangers include preoccupation with selfishness, false visions, misinterpretations of mystical states, arrest in development, fixation in a particular state, appeal to various drugs to create false mystical experiences, and, not infrequently, overwhelming anxiety and insanity.

Others Sufis Teaching quote, Islam, Sufism
Mohammed Shafii, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.136

S hems asked a sheikh, "What are you doing.
I am looking at the moon's reflection in this lake" replied the sheikh.
"Why don't you look directly at the sky? Are you so blind that you do not see the true object in all you contemplate?"
Shems'reply had such an effect on the sheikh that he asked Shems to accept him as his disciple.
"You do not have the strength to bear my company," replied Shems.
'The strength is within me," said the sheikh. "Please accept me.
"Then bring me a pitcher of wine, and we will drink together in the Baghdad market.'
Fearing public opinion (because alcohol is forbidden by Islam), the sheikh replied, 'I cannot do this"
Shems shouted, "You are too timid for me. You haven't the strength to be among the intimate friends of God. I seek only those who know how to reach the Truth.'

Others Sufis Teaching quote, Islam, Sufism
Shems Tabrizi, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.132

L et the eye of your heart be opened that you may see the spirit and behold invisible things.
If you set your face toward the region where Love reigns, you will see the whole universe laid out as a rose garden. What you see, your heart will wish to have, and what your heart seeks to possess, that you will see. If you penetrate to the 'middle of each mote in the sunbeams, you will find a sun within.
Give all that you possess to Love. If your spirit is dissolved in the flames of Love, you will see that Love is the alchemy for spirit.
You will journey beyond the narrow limitations of time and place and will pass into the infinite spaces of the Divine World. What ear has not heard, that you will hear, and what no eye has seen, you shall behold. Finally, you shall be brought to that high Abode, where you will see One only, beyond the world and all worldly creatures. To that One you shall devote the love of both heart and soul until, with the eye that knows no doubt, you will see plainly that "One is and there is nothing save God alone.'

Others Sufis Teaching quote, Islam, Sufism
Ahmad Hatif, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.123

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