Selected 75 sentences from the Zen Heart Collection of Buddhist Sayings

1. Although we cannot change the world around us, we can only change ourselves and face it all with compassion and wisdom.

2. The changes in life and death are also great. When the monk's family sat down and cut off the head of the Buddha of Samurai Transformation, he did not stand up to the slightest bit of knowledge, and went straight down.

3. I am afraid that passion will harm my holy life, and I am afraid that I will fall in love with the city by mistake when I enter the mountains. The world is safe and secure, and I will live up to the Tathagata and the Lord.

4. The Buddha’s wonderful path is cut off, and it only points directly to the human heart. You must see your nature and become a Buddha. However, the source of this heart is originally quiet, quiet, and wonderful.

5. The Tathagatas of the ten directions are on the same path, and they are free from birth and death because of their directness.

6. A person who is full of jealousy, is not honest in his heart, and speaks unfairly cannot be regarded as an upright official.

7. There is only smoothness in this world, not perfection. To practice, you need to be patient, be willing to be indifferent, and be happy with loneliness.

8. There is a cause and destiny to gather in the world, there is a cause and destiny to gather in the world; there is a cause and destiny to destroy the world, there is a cause and destiny to destroy the world.

9. If you don’t take a shower, the perfume will not smell good if you apply it hard. Fame and respect is originated from true skills. Virtues are naturally fragrant.

10. Please speak out your dissatisfaction and grievances with compassion and a gentle attitude, so that others can easily accept it.

11. End your life in front of your lover, instant pain, eternal happiness, and irresistible desire.

12. When a righteous person practices evil dharma, the evil dharma is also righteous. When an evil person practices righteous dharma, the righteous law is also evil. Everything is created only by the mind.

13. A normal mind is the way, but if you just start thinking about being normal, you have already failed. This is the most subtle and difficult to deal with.

14. You have to thank the person who told you about your shortcomings. People who can think of others will never be lonely.

15. Ordinary people take the environment, Taoists take the heart, and forgetfulness of the state of mind is the true method.

16. Those who create opportunities are brave. People who wait opportunity is stupid. Being able to talk but not do it is not true wisdom.

17. When you face things with troubles, you will feel that everything is karma, and the world will become ugly and hateful.

18. If you do not rely on good teachers, you will not be able to achieve success. Without a guru, there will be no Buddha. All Buddhas become Buddhas by relying on the guru.

19. This exists, therefore that exists, this arises, therefore that arises; this has no cause, that does not exist, this ceases, therefore that destroys.

20. How many people will say the same sentence when they are about to leave this world. This world is really helpless and desolate!

21. The mind does not blindly grasp the past, nor is it greedy for the future. It does not dwell in the present, and realizes that the three lifetimes are empty and peaceful.

22. Don’t mix arrogance with your wisdom. Do not let your humility lack wisdom.

23. Of all the diseases, it is most difficult for doctors to treat them; of all living beings, it is most difficult for self-righteous people to survive.

24. In order to increase the arrogance of people, the Buddha said that freedom from sexual immorality, anger and delusion is liberation. If there is no increase in conceit, the Buddha said that the nature of lust, anger and delusion is liberation.

25. Work in the heart, seedlings in the body, no need to complain or blame others, if you want to gain, do not attract endless karma, and do not slander the Tathagata.

26. Don’t deliberately guess what others think. If you don’t have the correct judgment with wisdom and experience, you will usually make mistakes.

27. Don’t accept things as they come, have no intention at all, be forever still and empty, ultimately pure, and naturally liberated.

28. Not only can you not trust others, you can’t trust yourself either. Why? Your own feelings will change.

29. If a person lives for a hundred years and cannot see the law of birth and death, it is better to live for one day and be able to see it.

30. If you see the faults and rights and wrongs of sentient beings every day, you must quickly repent. This is practice.

31. Compassion and love in the world are the same thing, one is awareness and the other is confusion.

32. The key to inquiry is to be single-minded, not forceful, just stick to one's duty, and have roots and feet that are exposed, so that one can clearly see the true face.

33. A person who often looks at the shortcomings of others is not good enough because he has no time to review himself.

34. When you persuade others, if you do not take into account the self-esteem of others, then no matter how good your words are, they will be useless.

35. Don’t say that others are pitiful. You are even more pitiful. So what if you practice by yourself? How much do you know about life?

36. Only by knowing yourself, surrendering yourself, and changing yourself can you change others. Today's persistence will cause tomorrow's regrets.

37. Since the Tathagatas of the ten directions share the same path, they all have a straight mind to escape from life and death.

38. True love requires both parties to be willing and willing, and it can only be achieved if there is a reason and predestined relationship, not just what you want.

39. When others hurt you, bear it happily without any resentment or hatred. Only then can you resolve your resentment and stop any further resentment.

40. Ordinary people in the Six Paths use delusional minds, and what they say is unreliable. Don’t take it seriously. You have to take it seriously and decide to be fooled.

41. The rope of love is binding you, even Amitabha can’t pull it. There is no way, you must break it.

42. Adversity is a necessary process for growth. Those who have the courage to accept adversity will grow stronger day by day.

43. Reality is a formless appearance, true intention is an unintentional mind, true gain is a gain without gain, and true use is a useless use.

44. When you know the confusion, you are not pitiful. When you don’t know the confusion, you are the most pitiful.

45. Regardless of each other, we are all present everywhere and at any time. This is the original face of equality, independence, and fearlessness.

46. If there is fate, time and space are not distance; if there is no fate, we will not be able to understand each other even if we are together all day long.

47. If the heart does not seek for anything, does not have delusional thoughts, and does not depend on any circumstances, then it is liberation from the toil in this house of fire.

48. If you regard a quiet place as right and a noisy place as wrong, you will destroy the appearance of the world and seek the appearance of Buddha. Abandon birth and death and seek tranquility.

49. Understanding one will lead to thousands of followers, and confusing one will lead to thousands of confusions. If one keeps one, everything will be over. This is the wonder of enlightenment.

50. To overcome the fear of death, you must accept the concept that everyone in the world will die.

51. Buddha said: There are seven sufferings in life: birth, old age, illness, death, resentment and hatred, separation from love, and failure to seek.

52. To realize the wonderful way of the Buddha, it is best to go up to the root of Chile, forget about body and mind, and not fall into the plane state, but go straight down to excellence.

53. Never look only at the faults of all living beings. If you only look at the faults of all sentient beings, you will forever pollute yourself.

54. My mind is untainted, my delusions do not arise, my heart is destroyed, and I am pure after all. Because of tranquility, immeasurable knowledge and insights can arise.

55. Don’t waste your life on something you will regret. When you let go, there will be no worries.

56. True generosity is to let go of all your worries, worries, and attachments.

57. Practice is not on the surface, but in the heart. Every thought is practice. If you truly practice, no one can hinder you.

58. Don’t always open your eyes so wide. Let me ask you, a hundred years from now, that will be yours.

59. There are eight sufferings in life: birth, old age, illness, death, separation from love, long-lasting resentment, not being able to ask for something, not being able to let go.

60. All appearances are false; all conditioned phenomena are like bubbles in dreams, like dew or lightning, and should be viewed as such.

61. A person who is full of jealousy, is not honest in his heart, and speaks incorrectly cannot be regarded as a person with good facial features.

62. Understand the wonderful mind first, practice the practice without practice, and realize the realization without practice. There is no need to seek outside, just return to the light.

63. I hope you will often say to yourself that after hearing the Dharma, I am the happiest person. Apart from this happiness, there is nothing else.

64. If you can discover your own shortcomings as accurately as you can see the shortcomings of others, then your life will be extraordinary.

65. Those who develop bodhichitta are not for self-interest, but for the support of all sentient beings in extreme suffering throughout the ten directions and throughout the Dharma Realm.

66. If you don’t forgive all living beings, if you don’t forgive all living beings, you will suffer yourself.

67. All the evil deeds I have done in the past were all caused by beginningless greed, hatred and ignorance, arising from my body, speech and mind. I now repent of all of them.

68. When your mistakes are exposed, don’t lose your temper. Don’t think that being willful or noisy can hide or overcome your shortcomings.

69. Live with a normal heart, treat others with a guilty heart, deal with things with a heart, and understand the Buddha's heart with a bodhicitta.

70. Parting with love, meeting with resentment, and returning to the west are nothing of the sort. it's just what you see, but nothing deep.

71. When you are worried, you have to tell yourself that all this is false. What are you worried about?

72. Only Buddhas and Bodhisattvas can see clearly and know how the six paths of reincarnation occur. It is because of this wrong thought.

73. Don’t be dissatisfied with others, you should be self-examination. Dissatisfied people are suffering yourself.

74. Living in this world is like being among thorns! If the heart does not move, people will not move rashly, and if they do not move, they will not be hurt.

75. Open your mind and relax your mind, and you will become more and more harmonious and open-minded.