Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: [As a Dharma practitioner] your intention is to let go of the suffering. Your intention is to get back to our original mind, the mind before it is first functioning, the mind as it is. — Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: The essential process of becoming Awakened is actually simple and happens by itself. What we need to train in is to become simple enough to allow it to happen. We need to set ourselves up in a way that is conducive to its happening. Resolving to sit to meditate is part of that. — Lama Shenpen Hookham

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life. — Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971)

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Wealth and enjoyments are the occasion of ruin in this life and those to come. Beings are in a situation that is like a turbulent river rushing irresistibly toward the sea. They are constantly tormented and exhausted by the tasks of accumulating, preserving, and augmenting their possessions. Their minds are pulled this way and that by desires, and they are never satisfied. When they possess a few riches, they become puffed up and look down on others. ... Those who know contentment have reached the summit of riches. — Kangyur Rinpoche (1897-1975)

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: I regularly sat close by good people and learnt the teaching. What I learned, I practiced, the direct route that culminates in the deathless. I’ve slain the desire to be reborn, it won’t be found in me again. It was not, and it won’t be in me, and it isn’t found in me now. —  Kanhadinna (Theragatha 2.30)

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