Huangbo Xiyun Quotes

#1. Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

Huangbo Xiyun

#2. As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

Peter Diamandis

#3. There exists just the One mind.

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#4. A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

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#5. Bond grinned with pleasure. What most warmed him was that M. himself should have rung up Mathis. This was quite unheard of. The very existence of M., let alone his identity, was never admitted. He could imagine the flutter this must have caused in the ultra-security-minded organization in London.

Ian Fleming

#6. The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

Michelangelo

#7. By the dharma is meant the heart, for there is no dharma apart from the heart.

Huangbo Xiyun

#8. The moment when you find out when you shoot the pilot - getting the pilot is a small victory. You shoot the pilot, and when you get picked up, that's a huge victory right there.

Kevin Dillon

#9. Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.

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#10. Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.

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#11. On seeing one thing, you see all things. On perceiving an individual's mind, you perceive all mind. Glimpse one truth, and all truth is present in your vision, for there is nowhere at all that is devoid of the Truth.

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#12. 'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development. In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts, and so the Way is entirely misunderstood

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#13. Concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

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#14. All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it.

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#15. People are scared to empty their minds
fearing that they will be engulfed by the void.
What they don't realize is that
their own mind is the void.

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#16. The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

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#17. Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas.

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#18. But time is life, and life exists in our hearts, and the more of it that the people saved, the less they actually had.

Michael Ende

#19. I never avoid something that challenges my guts and my heart. While I might occasionally puke my guts out, I have never puked my heart out.

Michael Scott

#20. Our original nature is ... void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.

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#21. To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form

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#22. Love is the light through which we find joy and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#23. When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

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#24. I'm not bothered about clothes. Never have been.

Marie Helvin