Don't say that I will depart tomorrow—
even today I am still arriving.
Look deeply: every second I am arriving
to be a bud on a Spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death
of all that is alive.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh, from "Please Call Me by My True Names"
Quotations about Buddha
"Don't just do something ... Sit there!"
- Marge's comment on meditation. (Contributed by Marge)
"All Chinese [Buddhists] are vegetarians, but most of them prefer to flavor their vegetables with beef, or pork, or duck, or chicken."
- Lin Yu Tang (Contributed by Allan Adasiak)
"Blessed is he who finds happiness in his own foolishness. For he will always be happy". -- Chade Meng
What is nirvana?
"Nothing happens next. This is it." said the old monk to the young one.
Disciple: Oh wise and all knowing one, show me the place of perfect peace.
Master: If I show it to you, it will know longer be peaceful. (Contributed by Neil Woods)
"Meditation is not about doing something" -- Joko Beck
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much better. -- Laurie Anderson
Birds it would seem are so intent on being birds that they have no time to speculate on their not being birds. - William A. Russell
"When I first started reading about Buddhism, I said this emptiness is really heavy!" - Rev Ryunyo King
A Zen master once said to me, "Do the opposite of whatever I tell you." So I didn't.
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." - Woody Allen.
