Tathagata Quotes

“No matter how confused, perturbed, and negative we may sometimes feel, our Buddha nature is always there. It can never be lost or damaged. This Buddha nature is the essential nature of our mind. It is primordially pure, replete with all the qualities of a Buddha.”
― David Oromith (Johnson)

“Don't trouble your mind essence. Remember that in pure Tathagata mind essence there is no asking of the question why and not even any significance attached to it.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“So: an epic novel of the Tathagata? Yes, but not a very good one. Kerouac would have done better.”
― Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600