Buddha Mind Quotes

“It [mind of absolute reality] is everywhere and nowhere. It’s somewhat like sky—so completely integrated with our existence that we never stop to question its reality or to recognize its qualities.”
― Yongey Mingyur, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

“Be strategic about productivity. Do less exceptionally well, instead of doing more in an average way.”
― Laurie Buchanan, PhD

“Ride the moment
To conquer time.
Ride your breath
To clean the grime.”
― Banani Ray, Buddha's Smile Poems on Zen Living and Mindful Way of Life

“The way of faith is always an integrated, single way. Whereas, the way of wisdom is always a highly differentiated, capricious way.”
― Roger Weir

“When we package the Dharma in a flashy box with no contents, we offer only the skin of Dharma. It might be better for authentic Dharma to die than to establish large groups and spew out teachers regurgitating sound bites like those that sell special transient mind-states as the Buddha mind.”
― Dosho Port, Keep Me in Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri

“Unless you realize that your own mind is the buddha, you will be deceived by the multitude of conceptual thoughts. So realize that your own mind is the buddha!”
― Padmasambhava, Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples

“All phenomena are subject to instantaneous transformation.”
― Roger Weir