Dalai Lama

Cities have become so crowded that not only do we step on our own shadows we are losing even the shade of our own hearts. Beopjeong Sunim

We are all here on this planet as tourists. None of us can live here forever.

Morning medi: We wear robes and eat rice we go out to work and return to rest all our actions are performed according to the truth Hsu Yun

Everyday Buddhist: In meditation you don't find your personality that interesting after a while. Ajahn Sumedho

Everyday Buddhist: When we can't wait for other people to honour us, we tend to put robes of honour on ourselves. Old Zen Master

If you're always trying to get rid of suffering, you can't really understand it you're caught up in reacting to it. Ajahn Sumedho

Everyday Buddhist: The Eightfold Path is really the experience of nonsuffering, in the present, in the here-and-now. Ajahn Sumedho

Regardless of race, creed, ideology, politics, or economics, the most important and basic aspect of all people is their shared humanity.

For those content with universal and profound awakening, awakening and nirvana are like tethering posts for donkeys. Rinzai

I am not talking of stupid self-assurance but of an awareness of our inner potential.

Teachings are surface explanations. Students, not realizing this, hold on to these explanations and make interpretations of them. Rinzai

Followers of the way: Now has no history. Zen Graffiti

Good human qualities--honesty, sincerity, a good heart--cannot be bought with money or produced by machines, but only by the mind itself.

They are free to secure the temporary and ultimate benefit of both themselves and others.

I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibility is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.

Followers of the way: Before you go off in search of enlightenment, see the buddha of your own mind. Zen Graffiti

If you are not able to express the mental conflicts that you have, then at a later point of your life when you are able to

Buddhist meditation: If it was only a matter of time, we'd all have been Buddhas long ago. Zen Graffiti

If you think meditation is boring, then you're just thinking -- goodnight everyone.

Buddhist meditation: Realising that self and things are in their essence empty, existence &amp non-existence disappear. Shen-hui