#buddha

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#mind

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#birth #buddhas #death #disappearing #freely

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#find #nature #see #you #your

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#cares #free #person #plans #who

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#look #mind #see #use #won

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#liberate #mortals

But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#christianity #history #politics #religion #faith

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart. ↗

— John Green

#decomposition #entropy #fall-apart #science #together

I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#religion #religion

The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained. ↗

— Sal Martinez

#experiences #fortune #universe #wisdom #experience