Wisdom for Today

Buddhist and Buddhism-related words of wisdom, updated each weekday.

Ten recitations of Amitabha’s Name, as mentioned in the passage on the lowest level in the low tier, are the karmic cause of rebirth in the Land of Bliss. However, each recitation can fully accomplish rebirth. It is not restricted to the number “10.” — Master Huijing. 4 February 2020

Without the mind, nothing can have any meaning for us. Our mind does not create and direct everything in existence, but we can only make sense of the world through the mind and the mind is all we have to work with. There is nothing else. We need to train our mind because it is the mind which makes us suffer. — Ringu Tulku. 3 February 2020

We have to study with our warm heart, not just with our brain. — Shunryu Suzuki. 31 January 2020

There are over three hundred muscles in your face. When you are angry or fearful, these muscles tense up. The tension in these muscles creates a feeling of hardness. If you know how to breathe in and produce a smile, however, the tension will disappear—it is what I call “mouth yoga.” — Thich Nhat Hanh. 30 January 2020

To ease loneliness we first need to find friends within ourselves. We can start by connecting with our own positive qualities, such as love and compassion. We can learn to treasure and value these inner qualities and draw our strength from them first and foremost. These qualities are our inner conditions for interdependence and are our closest and most reliable allies in negotiating the outer conditions of our interdependence. — His Holiness The Karmapa. 29 January 2020

In empty mind, is there a you? Is there an I? — Seung Sahn. 24 January 2020

As you learn to love more and more widely, your love will motivate you to act to benefit not just the few people in your inner circle, but your whole society, and eventually, the whole world. — His Holiness The Karmapa. 23 January 2020

Empty minds, empty bodies, empty emotions, but not nothingness. — Mingyur Rinpoche. 22 January 2020

Our practice of Amitabha-recitation is the host and our deluded thoughts are guests, or passers-by. Do not mind the business of people on the street, nor follow them. More importantly, do not blame them for disturbing your practice. — Master Huijing. 21 January 2020

Satori is being enlightened to the fact that we are deluded. — Sodo Yokoyama. 20 January 2020

Awareness will become clearer and clearer of its own accord; we don’t have to force it to become so. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. 17 January 2020

As you begin your practice, think something like, “Breath, the door of my heart is open to you no matter how you feel, no matter what you do.” — Ajahn Brahm. 16 January 2020

It doesn’t matter how many delusions you have, how confused you are, how much negativity you have created, it is possible, absolutely possible, to totally eradicate all of it. — Lama Thubten Yeshe. 15 January 2020

There are two sources of dharma-joy. One is understanding of Amitabha’s compassionate deliverance. The other is through tasting its sweetness through reciting Amitabha’s Name. — Master Huijing. 14 January 2020

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. — Alan Watts. 13 January 2020

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves. — Thich Nhat Hanh. 10 January 2020

Just trust that the nature of mind is simply the mind itself left in an unaltered state, and do all that you can to sustain this, without distraction, at all times, during and between the meditation sessions. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. 9 January 2020

Reality is your teacher. Everything that appears can become your teacher. The four seasons can teach you. Anything can be a teacher of Buddhist teachings. Anything. — His Holiness the Karmapa. 2 January 2020

It is the resolution of Amitabha Buddha to deliver sentient beings. It is the career of Amitabha Buddha to deliver sentient beings. It is the joy of Amitabha Buddha to deliver sentient beings. — Master Huijing. 31 December 2019

Understanding and love aren’t two separate things, they’re just one. — Thich Nhat Hanh. 30 December 2019

Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all. We have to face the eventual truth—not even the eventual truth but the real truth of our lives. We are here; therefore, we have to learn how to go forward with our lives. — Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. 27 December 2019

Grass can never upset the sun, nor can sentient beings annoy Amitabha Buddha. Amitabha is a buddha we can never offend, as are all the buddhas in their compassion. — Master Jingzong. 24 December 2019

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