Bodhisattva Quotes

• Un bodhisattva es alguien que tiene compasión dentro de sí mismo y que es capaz de hacer sonreír a otra persona o de ayudar a que alguien sufra menos. Todos somos capaces de ello.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Suffering, Able

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Be Free Where You Are: A Talk Given at the Maryland Correctional Institute: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• En el viaje del guerrero-bodhisattva, el camino va hacia abajo, no hacia arriba, como si la montaña apuntara hacia la tierra en vez de hacia el cielo. En vez de trascender el sufrimiento de todas las criaturas, avanzamos hacia la turbulencia y la duda como podemos. Exploramos la realidad y lo imprevisible de la inseguridad y el dolor, e intentamos no apartarlos. Si lleva años, si lleva vidas, dejamos que sea como es. A nuestro ritmo, sin velocidad ni agresividad, bajamos y bajamos y bajamos. Con nosotros se mueven millones de otros, compañeros en el despertar del miedo.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Moving, Warrior

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• A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

  Nhat Hanh

  People, Perfect, Trying

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.73, Parallax Press

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• El antídoto contra el odio en el corazón, fuente de violencia, es la tolerancia. La tolerancia es una virtud importante de los bodhisattvas [héroes y heroínas iluminados]: te permite abstenerte de reaccionar con ira ante el daño que te infligen los demás. Podríamos llamar a esta práctica "desarme interior", en el sentido de que una tolerancia bien desarrollada te libera de la compulsión de contraatacar. Por la misma razón, también llamamos a la tolerancia la "mejor armadura", ya que te protege de ser conquistado por el propio odio.

  Dalai Lama

  Hero, Heart, Practice

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

  Alan Watts

  Able, Preaching, Sermons

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• Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Fear, Frightened, Fearlessness

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• The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost reponses to our world - to hunger and torture and the threat of annihilation - we touch that boundless heart.

  Joanna Macy

  Heart, Our World, Soul

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• To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Even if for the moment you cannot actually help a sentient being in an external way, meditate on love and compassion constantly over the months and years until compassion is knit inseparably into the very fabric of your mind.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rimpoché

  Compassion, Years, Mind

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• The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

  Federico Lenz

  Teaching, Compassion, Secret

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• The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands.

  Tsoknyi Rimpoché

  Compassion, Security And Freedom, People

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• Examine thus yourself from every side.
  Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving.
  Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path
  Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind.

  Shantideva

  Wisdom, Hero, Mind

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• When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy planting good roots today, rather than fretting about the plants that are already growing from the roots we planted in the past.

  Hsing Yun

  Buddhist, Mean, Past

  Hsing Yun (2016). “Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

  Joanna Macy

  Peace, Heart, Grieving

  Joanna Macy (1983). “Despair and personal power in the nuclear age”, New Society Pub

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• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

  Buda Gautama

  Running, Book, Humility

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• A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.

  Buda Gautama

  Budista, Creer, Hombres

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• Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Warrior, Training, Wake Up

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• What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Teacher, Enlightenment, Needs

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• Existe un verdadero movimiento feminista en el budismo relacionado con la diosa Tārā. Tras cultivar la bodichita, la motivación del bodhisattva, observó la situación de quienes se esforzaban por alcanzar el pleno despertar y sintió que había muy pocas personas que alcanzaran la Budeidad siendo mujeres. Así que juró: "He desarrollado la bodichita como mujer. Durante todas mis vidas en el camino, juro nacer como mujer, y en mi última vida, cuando alcance la Budeidad, también seré una mujer".

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Buddhism, People

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.292, Penguin Books India

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• If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)

  Jean Leloup

  Christian, Buddhist, Peace

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• Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Earth, Mother Earth

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change". Interview with Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Some students went to Milarepa and said, we should stop living in caves and meditating because we should go out and help beings as bodhisattvas. And Milarepa said that as long as space exists, so long will there be beings for you to help.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Space, Long, Caves

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• Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!

  Federico Lenz

  Karma, Laughter, Visits You

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• I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical thought, ultimately.

  Federico Lenz

  Nice, Compassion, Attention

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• Hay varios reinos que las personas corrientes no perciben. Que no puedan verlos no significa que no existan. Uno de estos reinos es el sambhogakaya, que sólo pueden visitar los Bodhisattvas altamente realizados. En el reino puro del sambhogakaya, el Dharma se enseña continuamente. Un reino sambhogakaya es Tushita, presidido por el próximo Buda, el Buda Maitreya. Buda Shakyamuni habitó allí antes de venir a la Tierra a impartir las enseñanzas del Dharma.

  Thrangu Rimpoché

  Enseñar, Significar, Dar

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• To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Attitude, Reality, Thinking

  "The Miracle of Mindfulness". Book by Thich Nhat Hanh, 1999.

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