Buddhas Quotes

“जमिनको खाएर आकासको सोझो गर्नेहरुलाई सूली चढाइन्छन् नै ।”
― Saroj Aryal

“जमीनको खाएर आकासको सोझो गर्नेहरु, सूली चढाइन्छन नै ।”
― Saroj Aryal

“A buddha's mission is to rescue living beings trapped in the worlds of transmigration. A buddha appears in the world as a result of his aspiration toward enlightenment in former existences and his accumulation of various kinds of practice in a single world system (or, some say, in a trichiliocosm, described in chapter 4). Śākyamuni, th Buddha who appeared in India, was one such buddha.”
― Akira Sadakata, Buddhist Cosmology: Philosophy and Origins

“Buddhists consider a personal encounter with a buddha a rare chance, and an occasion for deep gratitude. The rarity of this opportunity is emphasized by the Buddhist saying that it is as difficult for a living being to be born human and to encounter the Buddha as for a blind turtle that raises its head above the surface of the sea only once in a hundred years to put its head in a hole in a floating log. This metaphor encourages the devotee to pursue religious training.”
― Akira Sadakata, Buddhist Cosmology: Philosophy and Origins

“At first, the Buddha meant Śākyamuni alone. Even today that remains true in countries that follow the Theravāda (a type of pre-Mahāyāna) tradition. At a very early period in Buddhist history, however, there arose the idea of the seven buddhas of the past: Vipassin (in Pali, Vipśyin in Skirt), Sikhin (Śikhin), Vessabhū (Viśvabhū), Kakusandha (Krakucchanda), Ko ṇāgamana (Kanakamuni), Kassapa (Kāśyapa), and Sākyamuni (Śākyamuni). It is interesting to note that though Sākyamuni is the most recent of the buddhas, he is still considered a buddha of the past. As Mahāyāna developed, the buddhas of the past grew in number. In the Larger Sukhāvatī-vyūha (ca. 100 C.E.), eighty buddhas are said to have made their appearance while Amitābha Buddha was still training (the Chinese translation puts this number at fifty-three). The names of the seven buddhas of the past do not appear in this sūtra, perhaps indicating that the eighty buddhas belong to an even earlier period.”
― Akira Sadakata, Buddhist Cosmology: Philosophy and Origins

“The bodhisattvas Manjushri and Samantabhadra, attendants of Shakyamuni Buddha who stand at his right and left in Buddhist iconography, represent the two aspects of the perfected character of the Buddha: great wisdom and great compassion. But these bodhisattvas are not merely symbols in our consciousness, and thinking them to be unreal is a mistake. Likewise, buddhas such as Vairochana, Baisajyaguru, and Amitabha, as well as the myriad buddhas mentioned in the Sutra of the Three Thousand Names of the Buddha are not only names of the infinite potential of our essential nature, but are actual buddhas.”
― Kōun Yamada, Zen: The Authentic Gate

“The buddhas and ancestors were originally ordinary beings like us, and at some point we too will definitely become buddhas and Zen ancestors.”
― Kōun Yamada, Zen: The Authentic Gate