Bodhisattva Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Bodhisattva.
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“Sage (philosophy)”
“Wikipedia: Bodhisattva”
“Wikicommons: Bodhisattva”
“The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas online with commentaries.”
“Online exhibition analyzing a Korean Bodhisattva sculpture”
“For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahāmati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.”
“Arahants, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas by Bhikkhu Bodhi”
“The Bodhisattva Ideal in Theravāda Theory and Practice by Jeffrey Samuels”
“The Ethical Discipline of Bodhisattvas, by Geshe Sonam Rinchen (Tibetan Gelug Tradition)”
“What A Bodhisattva Does: Thirty-Seven Practices by Ngulchu Thogme with slide show format.”
“Audio recitation of 'The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas' in MP3 format (Paul & Lee voices).”
“The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas, all-in-one page with memory aids & collection of different versions.”
“Sacred visions : early paintings from central Tibet, fully digitized text from The Metropolitan Museum of Art libraries”
“Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), Northern Qi dynasty, c. 550--60, video, Smarthistory.”
“Thus, Mahāmati, wherever there is the evolution of living beings, let people cherish the thought of kinship with them, and, thinking that all beings are [to be loved as if they were] an only child, let them refrain from eating meat. So with Bodhisattvas whose nature is compassion, [the eating of] meat is to be avoided by him. Even in exceptional cases, it is not [compassionate] of a Bodhisattva of good standing to eat meat.”
“Shariputra, the bodhisattva treats all things and beings, each one of them, with perfect equality. His deeply searching mind is pure, and because it rests on Buddha wisdom, it can see the purity of this Buddha land.”
“Ratnākara, the various kinds of living beings are in themselves the Buddha lands (buddhakṣetra) of the bodhisattvas. Why so? Because it is by converting various beings to the teachings that the bodhisattvas acquire their Buddha lands. It is by persuading various beings and overcoming their objections that the bodhisattvas acquire their Buddha lands. It is by inducing the various living beings to enter into the Buddha wisdom in such-and-such a land that they acquire their Buddha lands. It is by inducing the various living beings to develop the capacity for bodhisattva practices in such-and-such a land that they acquire their Buddha lands.
Why is this? Because the bodhisattva's acquisition of a pure land is wholly due to his having brought benefit to living beings. Suppose a man proposes to build a mansion on a plot of open land. He may do so as he wishes without hindrance. But if he tries to build it in the empty air, he will never be successful. It is the same with the bodhisattvas. It is because they wish to help others to achieve success that they take their vow to acquire Buddha lands. Their vow to acquire Buddha lands in not founded on emptiness.”