quotes = new Array
authors = new Array

quotes[0] = "In the old days Han Shan asked Shi De, 'When worldly people slander me, cheat me, insult me, ridicule me, slight me, denigrate me, are disgusted with me, how should I handle it?' Shi De said, ' All you can do is tolerate them, yield to them, let them have their way, avoid them, endure them, respect them, and not pay attention to them. Wait a few years, and then see how they are.'"
authors[0] = "Han Shan and Shi De"

quotes[1] = "It may be, Ananda, that to some among you the thought will come: 'Ended is the word of the Master; we have a Master no longer.' But it should not, Ananda, be so considered. For that which I have proclaimed and made known as the Dhamma and the Discipline, that shall be your Master when I am gone."
authors[1] = "Maha-Parinibbana Sutta, Digha Nikaya 16"

quotes[2] = "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
authors[2] = "Albert Einstein"

quotes[3] = "Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth." 
authors[3] = "Dhammapada 223"
 
quotes[4] = "What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separate us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous."
authors[4] = "Thomas Merton"

quotes[5] = "It is like a great regal tree growing in the rocks and sand of barren wilderness. When the roots get water, the branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits will all flourish. The regal bodhi-tree growing in the wilderness of Birth and Death is the same. All living beings are its roots; all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are its flowers and fruits. By benefitting all beings with the water of Great Compassion, one can realize the flowers and fruits of the Buddhas' and Bodhisattvas' wisdom."
authors[5] = "Avatamsaka Sutra"

quotes[6] = "Whatever joy there is in this world, All comes from desiring others to be happy, And whatever suffering there is in this world, All comes from desiring myself to be happy."
authors[6] = "Shantideva"

quotes[7] = "Since beginningless time, all sentient beings have had all sorts of delusions, like a disoriented person who has lost his sense of direction. They mistake the gathering and dispersing of the four elements, (namely, earth, water, fire, and air) for their physiological selves, and the six conditioned impressions of the six sense objects, for their psychological selves. They are like a man with an illness of the eyes who sees an illusory flower in the sky, or a second moon."
authors[7] = "The Complete Enlightenment Sutra"

quotes[8] = "Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts."
authors[8] = "Jack Kornfield"

quotes[9] = "Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart, to give yourself to it."
authors[9] = "Dhammapada, 'Yourself'"

quotes[10] = "If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few."
authors[10] = "Suzuki Roshi"

quotes[11] = "This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: 'Monks, one who has not fully known and fully understood conceit, whose mind has not been cleansed of it, has not abandoned it, is incapable of putting an end to stress. But one who has fully known and fully understood conceit, whose mind has been cleansed of it, has abandoned it, is capable of putting an end to stress.'"
authors[11] = "Itivuttaka, 8"

quotes[12] = "Though my view is as spacious as the sky, my actions and respect for cause and effect are as fine as grains of flour."
authors[12] = "Padmasambhava"

quotes[13] = "Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow. Snap the flower arrows of desire and then, unseen, escape the king of death, and travel on."
authors[13] = "Dhammapada, 'flower', v46"

quotes[14] = "Do not mistake understanding for realization and do not mistake realization for liberation."
authors[14] = "Tibetan saying"

quotes[15] = "With nothing to attain, Bodhisattvas relying on Prajnaparamita, have no obstructions in their minds. Having no obstructions, there is no fear and departing far from confusion and imaginings, they reach Ultimate Nirvana."
authors[15] = "The Heart Sutra"

quotes[16] = "You live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality, but you do not know this. When you understand this, you will see that you are nothing, and being nothing you are everything. That is all."
authors[16] = "Kalu Rinpoche"

quotes[17] = "Whatever bhikkhu or bhikkhuni, layman or laywoman, abides by the Dhamma, lives uprightly in the Dhamma, walks in the way of the Dhamma, it is by such a one that the Tathagata is respected, venerated, esteemed, worshipped, and honoured in the highest degree. Therefore, Ananda, thus should you train yourselves: 'We shall abide by the Dhamma, live uprightly in the Dhamma, walk in the way of the Dhamma.'"
authors[17] = "Mahaparinibanna Sutta, Digha Nikaya 16"

quotes[18] = "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which is based on experience, which refuses dogmatism. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...."
authors[18] = "Albert Einstein"

quotes[19] = "Bhikkhus, when ignorance is abandoned and true knowledge has arisen in a bhikkhu, then with the fading away of ignorance and the arising of true knowledge he no longer clings to sensual pleasures, no longer clings to views, no longer clings to rules and observances, no longer clings to a doctrine of self. When he does not cling, he is not agitated. When he is not agitated, he personally attains Nibbana. He understands: 'Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming to any state of being.'"
authors[19] = "Majjhima Nikaya, 11, Culasihanada Sutta"

quotes[20] = "Let us be completely cool people who have nothing that can set fire to us and burn us. Let us not produce heat but rather win the prize that is nibbana."
authors[20] = "Ajahn Buddhadasa"

quotes[21] = "Free from desire, Free from possesions, Free from attachment and appetite, Following the seven lights of awakening, And rejoicing greatly in his freedom, In this world the wise person Becomes themselves a light, Pure, shining, free."
authors[21] = "Dhammapada"

quotes[22] = "A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance of those supernatural objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation."
authors[22] = "Albert Einstein"

quotes[23] ="The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present."
authors[23] = "Zhuang Zi"

quotes[24] = "If you have faith, sooner or later it may well be put to the test, and wherever the challenge may come from-- from within you or from outside-- it is simply part of the process of faith and doubt."
authors[24] = "Sogyal Rinpoche"

quotes[25] = "A legitimate conflict between science and religion cannot exist. ... Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
authors[25] = "Albert Einstein"

quotes[26] = "From a buddhist point of view, doubt is a sign of lack of complete understanding and a lack of spiritual education, but it is also seen as a catalyst in the maturing of faith. It is when we face doubts and difficulties that we discover whether our faith is a simplistic, pious, and conceptual one, or whether it is strong, enduring, and anchored in a deep understanding in the heart."
authors[26] = "Sogyal Rinpoche"

quotes[27] = "Buddhadharma does not negate the world and phenomena, nor does it teach people to escape from the world. It teaches people to liberate themselves by affirming the world and at the same time not attaching to it."
authors[27] = "Master Sheng-Yen"

quotes[28] = "It's like a child who is learning to write. At first he doesn't write nicely -- big, long loops and squiggles -- he writes like a child. . . . Practicing the Dhamma is like this. At first you are awkward...sometimes calm, sometimes not, . . . Some people get discouraged. Don't slacken off! You must persevere with the practice. Live with effort, just like the schoolboy: as he gets older he writes better and better. From writing badly he grows to write beautifully, all because of the practice from childhood."
authors[28] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[29] = "You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important."
authors[29] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[30] = "There is a way between voice and presence where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens. With wandering talk it closes."
authors[30] = "Rumi"

quotes[31] = "But this is like some sort of sweet fruit: even though the fruit is sweet we must rely on contact with and experience of that fruit before we will know what the taste is like. Now that fruit, even though noone tastes it, is sweet all the same. But nobody knows of it. The Dhamma of the Buddha is like this. Even though it's the truth it isn't true for those who don't really know it. No matter how excellent or fine it may be it is worthless to them."
authors[31] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[32] = "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I woke and found that life was service. I acted and behold service was joy."
authors[32] = "Tagore"

quotes[33] = "Once Chuang Chou dreamed he was a butterfly. He was happy as a butterfly, enjoying himself and going where he wanted. He did not know he was Chou. Suddenly he awoke, whereupon he was startled to find he was Chou. He didn't know whether Chou had dreamed he was a butterfly, or if a butterfly were dreaming it was Chou."
authors[33] = "Zhuang Zi"

quotes[34] = "Remember you don't meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it."
authors[34] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[35] = "The four reliances: Rely on the message of the teacher, not on his personality; Rely on the meaning, not just on the words; Rely on the real meaning, not on the provisional one; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary, judgemental mind."
authors[35] = "The Buddha"

quotes[36] = "After all, it is no more surprising to be born twice than it is to be born once."
authors[36] = "Voltaire"

quotes[37] = "We often envy the simplicity of innocent children and people who seem to be content with very little, yet we strive to be like people who have power, money, stature and responsibility."
authors[37] = "Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[38] = "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has learned how not to be a slave."
authors[38] = "Montaigne"

quotes[39] = "In genuine cultivation of practice, in the end there is just one road: carrying out vows."
authors[39] = "Master Nan Huai-Chin"

quotes[40] = "A meditative mind is silent. It is not the silence which thoughts can conceive of; it is not the silence of a still evening; it is the silence when thoughts, with all its images, its words and perceptions have entirely ceased. This meditative mind is the religious mind -- the religion that is not touched by the church, the temples or by chants."
authors[40] = "Krishnamurti"

quotes[41] = "Simplicity is important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have is vital."
authors[41] = "The Dalai Lama"

quotes[42] = "Prior to any action of the body, thought, or speech, there is a moment of intention that we need to be aware of because clarity about our intention gives us choice about how we can proceed. A moment of contact with our intention can break our habitual patterns and keep us from operating on automatic pilot."
authors[42] = "Frank Ostaseski"

quotes[43] = "Our needs are little; our wants are great. Pursue only what we really need; what we want is unimportant."
authors[43] = "Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[44] = "Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground -- the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge."
authors[44] = "Sogyal Rinpoche"

quotes[45] = "Don't worry please, please. How many times do I have to say it. There's no way not to be who you are and where."
authors[45] = "Ikkyu Sojun"

quotes[46] = "Ch'an practice is a pursuit of personal wisdom. But how can you judge what wisdom is? Within, it manifests as freedom from vexation. Without, it manifests in the way we interact with what is around us."
authors[46] = "Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[47] = "The burden of life diminishes considerably when we reflect on the limitations of our life. Then we know what we can achieve, what we can learn from life."
authors[47] = "Ajahn Sumedho"

quotes[48] = "True wisdom is without discrimination and is always at one with the environment. It is in this external manifestation that you see that the practice is not simply the pursuit of personal spiritual gratification. If you are only interested in your own freedom from vexation and your own benefit, then you are not practising Ch'an. If you practice only for yourself, you may achieve some level of samadhi, a very concentrated mental state, but genuine Ch'an is always turned outward as well as inward."
authors[48] = "Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[49] = "As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized."
authors[49] = "Chief Luther Standing Bear"

quotes[50] = "When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion."
authors[50] = "Stephen Levine"

quotes[51] = "We have to really define what we mean by faith in terms of these three qualities you just mentioned: the sense of admiration, the sense of belief, and the sense of longing. So, faith is a complex concept in Buddhism. It's not equivalent to belief. Belief is a component of faith, but faith is almost a kind of existential act that encompasses more than just belief. It's a whole orientation of your life toward a certain end and also standing in almost a state of awe. It's the feeling-response to the tradition and the teaching."
authors[51] = "Stephen Batchelor"

quotes[52] = "Suppose you considered your neighbourhood to be your temple--how would you treat your temple, and what would be your spiritual task there?"
authors[52] = "Jack Kornfield"

quotes[53] = "Enlightenment has little to do with supernormal powers and supernatural feats, but rather with accessing our great transcendental wisdom awareness and employing our potential for great functioning in order to help others."
authors[53] = "Master Nan Huai-Chin" 

quotes[54] = "Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering."
authors[54] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[55] = "If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate."
authors[55] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[56] = "Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it."
authors[56] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[57] = "Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless."
authors[57] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[58] = "According to the Buddhist Mahayana philosophy, we wander in this world aimlessly, blind to the power that can liberate us. Our minds fabricate desires and aversions, and like a drunken person we dance wildly to the tune set by ignorance, attachment, and hatred. Happiness is fleeting; dissatisfaction hounds us. It is all like a night mare. As long as we are convinced the dream is real, we are its slaves."
authors[58] = "Tulku Thundup"

quotes[59] = "Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering."
authors[59] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[60] = "When, in ancient times, seafarers navigated their ships across the great ocean with the aid of the stars, they were not able to follow exactly the course indicated by those heavenly bodies. Yet the stars were their guides, and by following them, however approximately, mariners reached their destination. In the same way, when we follow the rules of good conduct, we do not pretend that we can observe all of them all the time. This is why the five precepts are called 'training precepts'; it is also why we renew them again and again. What we have in the rules of good conduct is a framework through which we can try to live in accord with the two fundamental principles that illuminate the teaching of the Buddha: the principle of the equality of all living beings, and the principle of reciprocal respect."
authors[60] = "Peter D. Santina"

quotes[61] = "Renunciation is realizing that our nostalgia for wanting to stay in a protected, limited, petty world is insane."
authors[61] = "Pema Chodron"

quotes[62] = "The second realization  is the awareness that more desire brings more suffering. All hardships in daily life arise from greed and desire. Those with little desire and ambition can relax, their bodies and minds free from entanglement."
authors[62] = "Sutra on the Eight Realizations"

quotes[63] = "What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering."
authors[63] = "Ajahn Buddhadasa"

quotes[64] = "Silent in body, silent in speech, silent in mind, without defilement, blessed with silence is the sage. He is truly washed of evil." 
authors[64] = "Itivuttaka 56"

quotes[65] = "We deny death to the extent that even a ninety-six-year-old woman, newly admitted to a hospice, complained to the director, 'Why me?'"
authors[65] = "Jack Kornfield"

quotes[66] = "Thus shall ye think of this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom and a dream."
authors[66] = "The Diamond Sutra"

quotes[67] = "If a hundred people sleep and dream, each of them will experience a different world in his dream. Everyone's dream might be said to be true, but it would be meaningless to ascertain that only one person's dream was the true world and all others were fallacies. There is truth for each perceiver according to the karmic patterns conditioning his perception."
authors[67] = "Kalu Rinpoche"

quotes[68] = "Better than a hundred years of ignorance, is one day spent in reflection."
authors[68] = "Dhammapada, The Thousands"

quotes[69] = "Whenever doubt arises, see it simply as an obstacle, recognize it as an understanding that is calling out to be clarified or unblocked, and know that it is not a fundamental problem but simply a stage in the process of purification and learning. Allow the process to continue and complete itself, and never lose your trust or resolve. This is the way followed by all the great practitioners of the past, who used to say: 'There is no armor like perseverence.'"
authors[69] = "Sogyal Rinpoche"

quotes[70] = "Now, O bhikkhus, I say to you that these teachings of which I have direct knowledge and which I have made known to you -- these you should thoroughly learn, cultivate, develop, and frequently practise, that the life of purity may be established and may long endure, for the welfare and happiness of the multitude, out of compassion for the world, for the benefit, well being, and happiness of gods and men."
authors[70] = "Mahaparinibbana Sutta, Digha Nikaya 16"

quotes[71] = "In a sense everything is dreamlike and illusory, but even so, humorously you go on doing things. For example, if you are walking, without unnecessary solemnity or self-consciousness, lightheartedly walk toward the open space of truth. . . . As you eat, feed your negativities and illusions into the belly of emptiness, dissolving them into all-pervading space. And when you go to the toilet, consider all your obscurations and blockages are being cleansed and washed away."
authors[71] = "Dudjom Rinpoche"

quotes[72] = "If a Bodhisattva accords with living beings, then he accords with and makes offerings to all Buddhas. If he can honor and serve living beings, then he honors and serves the Thus Come Ones. If he makes living beings happy, he is making all Thus Come Ones happy."
authors[72] = "Avatamsaka Sutra, chap 40"

quotes[73] = "What is compassion? It is not simply a sense of sympathy or caring for the person suffering, not simply a warmth of heart toward the person before you, or a sharp clarity of recognition of their needs and pain, it is also a sustained and practical determination to do whatever is possible and necessary to help alleviate their suffering."
authors[73] = "Sogyal Rinpoche"

quotes[74] = "Whatever bhikkhu or bhikkhuni, layman or laywoman, abides by the Dhamma, lives uprightly in the Dhamma, walks in the way of the Dhamma, it is by such a one that the Tathagata is respected, venerated, esteemed, worshipped, and honoured in the highest degree. Therefore, Ananda, thus should you train yourselves: 'We shall abide by the Dhamma, live uprightly in the Dhamma, walk in the way of the Dhamma.'"
authors[74] = "Mahaparinibanna Sutta, Digha Nikaya 16"

quotes[75] = "People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
authors[75] = "Thich Nhat-Hanh"

quotes[76] = "Someone who looks for me in form or seeks me in sound is on a mistaken path and cannot see the Tathagata."
authors[76] = "The Diamond Sutra"

quotes[77] = "We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate oneself. Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others' kindness."
authors[77] = "Ven. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso"

quotes[78] = "However many holy words you read, <br>However many you speak, <br>What good will they do you <br>If you do not act upon them? <br>Are you a shepherd <br>Who counts another man's sheep, <br>Never sharing the way?"
authors[78] = "Dhammapada"

quotes[79] = "When you practice you need to have great faith in Guan-yin (Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara). Guan-yin is universal compassion. While she is simply a symbol, the meaning is profound. When you see her as the kindness of the Universe offering all life's experiences to you then you find gratitude. You cannot be proud at such a moment. This teaching is profound and needs to be the background against which meditation is practised. Otherwise the practice is in danger of becoming something quite mechanical."
authors[79] = "Venerable Ming Shu"

quotes[80] = "Yet, Ananda, have I not taught from the very beginning that with all that is dear and beloved there must be change, separation, and severance? Of that which is born, come into being, is compounded and subject to decay, how can one say: 'May it not come to dissolution!' There can be no such state of things."
authors[80] = "Mahaparinibbana Sutta, Digha Nikaya 16"

quotes[81] = "You need to train yourself so that at any time and any moment you choose, you can free yourself inwardly from your world, from others, from the past, from the future, from the previous thought and the next thought. This is to find freedom. Yet if you then think you are free and have some wisdom, this is not so. You should not be attached to solitude or to experiences of relative freedom. When you are neither attached to independence nor to company then wisdom will manifest."
authors[81] = "Master Sheng-Yen"

quotes[82] = "Great enlightening beings have ten kinds of extraordinary thought. What are they? They think of all roots of goodness as their own roots of goodness. They think of all roots of goodness as seeds of enlightenment. They think of all sentient beings as vessels of enlightenment. They think of all vows as their own vows. They think of all truths as emancipation. They think of all practices as their own practices. They think of all things as teachings of Buddha. They think of all modes of language as the path of verbal expression. They think of all buddhas as benevolent parents. They think of all buddhas as one."
authors[82] = "Avatamsaka Sutra"

quotes[83] = "Meditation is like using a fan--the old fashioned hand-held type. You have the task of catching a feather on the fan. Every time you move the fan, the feather is likely to be blown away. It's a delicate business. You have to hold the fan quite still just under the space through which the feather is sinking of its own motion. . . . Any use of force and the feather is lost. Yet, once you grasp the principle it is something very easy to do."
authors[83] = "Master Sheng-Yen"

quotes[84] = "When a good teacher approaches them, they should sever arrogance and pride. When the teacher leaves them, they should sever hatred and resentment. Be it a favorable or adverse condition that [a teacher] brings them, they should regard it as empty space. They should fully realize that their own bodies and minds are ultimately identical with all sentient beings', and are the same in essence, without difference. If they practice this way, they will enter the [realm of] Complete Enlightenment."
authors[84] = "Sutra of Complete Enlightenment"

quotes[85] = "Learned people realize that all happiness and suffering depend upon the mind and therefore seek happiness from the mind itself. Because they understand that the cause of happiness is complete within us, they do not rely on external sources. If we have this realization, then whether we face problems caused by either beings of physical matters, they will not be able to hurt us. Further more, this same strength of mind shall also be with us to provide peace and happiness at the time of our death."
authors[85] = "Dodrupchen"

quotes[86] = "Spiritual truth is not something elaborate and esoteric, it is in fact profound common sense. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually 'become' a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being."
authors[86] = "Sogyal Rinpoche"

quotes[87] = "Were all living beings to be free from sickness, I also would not be sick. Why? Manjusri, for the bodhisattva, the world consists only of living beings, and sickness is inherent in living in the world. Were all living beings free of sickness, the bodhisattva also would be free of sickness.... Manjusri, the bodhisattva loves all living beings as if each were his only child. He becomes sick when they are sick and is cured when they are cured. You ask me, Manjusri, whence comes my sickness; the sicknesses of the bodhisattvas arise from great compassion."
authors[87] = "Vimalakirti Sutra"

quotes[88] = "A jewel of great price is never a giveaway. We must earn it, with steady, unrelenting practice. We must earn it in each moment, not just in the 'spiritual side' of our life.  How we keep our obligations to others, how we serve others, whether we make the effort of attention that is called for each moment of our life--all of this is paying the price for the jewel.  I'm not talking about erecting a new set of ideals of 'how I should be.'  I'm talking about earning the integrity and wholeness of our lives by every act we do, every word we say."
authors[88] = "Charlotte Joko Beck"

quotes[89] = "Just consider...Suppose we came to possess a very expensive object. The minute that thing comes into our possession our mind changes... 'Now, where can I keep it? If I leave it there somebody might steal it'...We worry ourselves into a state, trying to find a place to keep it. And when did the mind change? It changed the minute we obtained that object -- suffering arose right then. No matter where we leave that object we can't relax, so we're left with trouble. Whether sitting, walking, or lying down, we are lost in worry."
authors[89] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[90] = "Again, bhikkhus, when walking, a bhikkhu understands: 'I am walking'; when standing, he understands: 'I am standing'; when sitting, he understands: 'I am sitting'; when lying down, he understands: 'I am lying down'; or he understands accordingly however his body is disposed. As he abides thus diligent, ardent, and resolute, his memories and intentions based on the household life are abandoned... That too is how a bhikkhu develops mindfulness of the body."
authors[90] = "Kayagatasati Sutta, Majjhima Nikaya"

quotes[91] = "Wherever we look, we find only the kindness of others."
authors[91] = "Ven. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso"

quotes[92] = "Virtuous man, this ignorance has no real substance. It is like a person in a dream. Though the person exists in the dream, when [the dreamer] awakens, there s nothing that can be grasped. Like an [illusory] flower in the sky that vanishes into empty space, one cannot say that there is a fixed place from which it vanishes. Why? Because there is no place from which it arises! Amidst the unarisen, all sentient beings deludedly perceive birth and extinction. Hence this is called the turning wheel of birth and death."
authors[92] = "Sutra of Complete Enlightenment"

quotes[93] = "A difficult situation can be handled in two ways: We can either do something to change it, or face it. If we can do something, then why worry and get upset over it -- just change. If there is nothing we can do, again, why worry and get upset over it? Things will not get better with anger and worry."
authors[93] = "Shantideva"

quotes[94] = "And how, bhikkhus, does a bhikkhu abide contemplating feelings as feelings? Here, when feeling a pleasant feeling, a bhikkhu understands: 'I feel a pleasant feeling'; when feeling a painful feeling, he understands: 'I feel a painful feeling'; ... when feeling a worldly painful feeling, he understands: 'I feel a worldly painful feeling';... In this way he abides contemplating feelings as feelings internally, or he abides contemplating feelings as feelings externally... And he abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world."
authors[94] = "Satipatthana Sutta, Majjhima Nikaya"

quotes[95] = "Amitabha means limitless life and infinite light. Life refers to time and light refers to space. Being able to surpass time and be free of its limits is called 'limitless life.' 'Infinite light' indicates the universally shining light of wisdom, the great strength that is limitless in depth, distance, and width. It pervades space and surpasses the limits of space. When birth and death are transcended, limitless life and infinite light appear."
authors[95] = "Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[96] = "Faith is the origin of the Path and the mother of all merit and virtue. It nurtures all wholesome roots in sentient beings."
authors[96] = "Avatamsaka Sutra"

quotes[97] = "Again, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu is one who acts in full awareness when going forward and returning; who acts in full awareness when looking ahead and looking away; who acts in full awareness when flexing and extending his limbs; who acts in full awareness when wearing his robe and carrying his outer robe and bowl; who acts in full awareness when eating, drinking, consuming food, and tasting; who acts in full awareness when defecating and urinating; who acts in full awareness when walking, standing, sitting, falling asleep, waking up, talking, and keeping silent."
authors[97] = "Satipatthana Sutta"

quotes[98] = "Do not find fault with others. If they behave wrongly, there is no need to make yourself suffer. If you point out to them what is correct and they do not practice accordingly, leave it at that."
authors[98] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[99] = "When the Buddha studied with various teachers, he realised that their ways were lacking, but he did not disparage them. Studying with humility and respect, he benefited from his relationship with them, yet he realised that their systems were not complete. Still, he had not yet become enlightened, he did not criticise or attempt to teach them. After he found enlightenment, he respectfully remembered those he had studied with and wanted to share his newfound knowledge with them."
authors[99] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[100] = "Here, bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma - discourses,..., and answers to questions - but having learned the Dhamma, they do not examine the meaning of those teachings with wisdom.Not examining the meaning of those teachings with wisdom, they do not gain a reflective acceptance of them. Instead they learn the Dhamma only for the sake of criticising others and for winning in debates, and they do not experience the good for the sake of which they learned the Dhamma. Those teachings, being wrongly grasped by them, conduce to their harm and suffering for a long time. Why is that? Because of the wrong grasp of those teachings."
authors[100] = "Alagaddupama Sutta"

quotes[101] = "I emphasize over and over again to everyone that if you cultivate the Path without realizing the fruit of enlightenment and you are unable to experience emptiness, this is because you have not been able to transform your mental activity. Thus, when you sit and meditate, you are only holding onto a bit of emptiness created by the realm of consciousness, and you think that is the Path."
authors[101] = "Master Nan Huai-Chin"

quotes[102] = "In Buddhism we speak of 'ignorance without beginning.' The concept of 'without beginning' is something that is unique to Buddhism. In general, philosophies and religions speak of a 'first beginning,' but Buddhism does not. Buddhism speaks of 'beginningless'. When people ask, 'Where does this beginningless come from?' Shakyamuni Budhha himself chose to remain silent and give no reply. How could I dare to try to answer it? To try to address this question intellectually is a trap."
authors[102] = "Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[103] = "Then the Blessed One spoke to the Venerable Ananda, saying: 'Enough, Ananda! Do not grieve, do not lament! For have I not taught from the very beginning that with all that is dear and beloved there must be change, separation, and severance? Of that which is born, come into being, compounded, and subject to decay, how can one say: May it not come to dissolution? There can be no such state of things. Now for a long time, Ananda, you have served the Tathagata with loving-kindness in deed, word, and thought, graciously, pleasantly, with a whole heart and beyond measure. Great good have you gathered, Ananda! Now you should put forth energy, and soon you too will be free from the taints."
authors[103] = "Digha Nikaya 16, Maha-parinibbana Sutta"

quotes[104] = "When little obstacles crop up on the spiritual path, a good practioner does not lose faith and begin to doubt, but has the discernment to recognize difficulties, whatever they may be, for what they are--just obstacles, and nothing more. It is the nature of things that when you recognize an obstacle as such, it ceases to be an obstacle. Equally, it is by failing to recognize an obstacle for what it is, and therefore taking it seriously, that it is empowered and solidified and becomes a real blockage."
authors[104] = "Sogyal Rinpoche"

quotes[105] = "A disciple living thousands of miles away from me will, if he constantly cherishes and ponders on my precepts, attain the fruit (of studying) the Way: but one who is in immediate contact with me,  though he sees me constantly, will ultimately fail to do so if he does not follow my precepts."
authors[105] = "The Sutra of Forty-Two Sections"

quotes[106] = "Essentially the Buddha's teaching as we have it in the Tipitaka is nothing but the knowledge of what is what or the true nature of things--just that."
authors[106] = "Ajahn Buddhadasa"

quotes[107] = "At any time when a disciple of the noble ones is recollecting the Sangha, his mind is not overcome with passion, not overcome with aversion, not overcome with delusion. His mind heads straight, based on the Sangha. And when the mind is headed straight, the disciple of the noble ones gains a sense of the goal, gains a sense of the Dhamma, gains joy connected with the Dhamma. In one who is joyful, rapture arises. In one who is rapturous, the body grows calm. One whose body is calmed experiences ease. In one at ease, the mind becomes concentrated."
authors[107] = "Anguttara Nikaya XI.12, Mahanama Sutta"

quotes[108] = "A person with a deluded view of life is like a dog chasing his own tail. He believes that it is another dog.s tail. He chases the other dog around and around a tree thinking only, 'Just let me get that dirty dog!' He will never catch his own tail, just as neither wealth, power, success, nor prestige will guarantee our security. Eventually the dog dies, as do we. At that moment the dog dies, he does not know what he was about or why he dies. He is unaware that he has been chasing his own tail. Such is the deluded view of life, and many, many of us live this way." 
authors[108] = "Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[109] = "The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind. Suppose you recite the Prajna Paramita Sutra only once. It might be a very good recitation. But what would happen to you if you recited it twice, three times, four times, or more? You might easily lose your original attitude towards it. The same thing will happen in your other Zen practices. For a while you will keep your beginner's mind, but if you continue to practice one, two, three years or more, although you may improve some, you are liable to lose the limitless meaning of original mind."
authors[109] = "Shunryu Suzuki Roshi"

quotes[110] = "Spiritual practice is based on experiential exploration and discovery that has to be pushed just as far into the inner world as science pushes its explorations into the outer world. That experience is always fresh, and it's ceaselessly renewed. It also brings along with it no shortage of obstacles and happenings of all sorts. It's not a matter of using ready-made formulae but of experiencing the teachings in the present moment, knowing how to use life's good and bad circumstances, dealing with all the thoughts of all kinds that arise in the mind, and understanding for oneself the chain reactions they cause and how to set oneself free from that process. True innovation is to know how to use every instant in life for the goals one's set oneself."
authors[110] = "Matthieu Ricard in The Monk and the Philosopher"

quotes[111] = "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."
authors[111] = "The 14th Dalai Lama"

quotes[112] = "And gladness springs up within him on his realizing that, and joy arises to him thus gladdened, and so rejoicing, all his frame becomes at ease, and being thus at ease he is filled with a sense of peace, and in that peace his heart is stayed."
authors[112] = "Digha Nikaya, Samannaphala Sutta, 73"

quotes[113] = "Try to find a secluded spot for yourself to stay within the mind, secluded from hindering distractions. Make your mind as bright as a jewel, and don't let temptation come along and try to trade garbage for the good things you've got."
authors[113] = "Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo"

quotes[114] = "Standing to one side, a devata addressed the Blessed One with a verse: 'Living in the wilderness, staying peaceful, remaining chaste, eating just one meal a day: why are their faces so bright & serene?' [The Buddha:] 'They don't sorrow over the past, don't long for the future. They survive on the present. That's why their faces are bright & serene. From longing for the future, from sorrowing over the past, fools wither away like a green reed cut down.'"
authors[114] = "Aranna Sutta, Samyutta Nikaya I.9"

quotes[115] = "Too many schisms, too many arguments. Religious leaders and philosophers are forever criticizing each other: I speak the truth, the right view; this other view is wrong, and let me tell you why it is wrong. True Buddhists do not get caught up in these trivial debates. Any path is good if it helps to create wholesome conduct. The difference between these paths lies in their destination."
authors[115] = "Chan Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[116] = "I can assure you that the mind is always changing, so no matter how strong the afflictive emotion, there is always the possibility of change. Transformation is always possible. So therefore, you see, there is always hope."
authors[116] = "The 14th Dalai Lama"

quotes[117] = "The image of the world around us that science provides is highly deficient. It supplies a lot of factual information, and puts all our experience in magnificently coherent order, but keeps terribly silent about everything close to our hearts, everything that really counts for us."
authors[117] = "Erwin Schrodinger"

quotes[118] = "Whatever we have done with our lives makes what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts."
authors[118] = "Sogyal Rinpoche"

quotes[119] = "None of the means employed to acquire religious merit, O monks, has a sixteeth part of the value of loving-kindness. Loving-kindness, which is freedom of heart, absorbs them all; it glows, it shines, it blazes forth."
authors[119] = "Ivituttaka"

quotes[120] = "While having every intention of studying and practicing Dharma, you may well keep putting it off until tomorrow or the next day, day by day all your life. You must avoid a whole human lifetime forever planning to practice."
authors[120] = "Patrul Rinpoche"

quotes[121] = "It is proper for you, Kalamas, to doubt, to be uncertain; uncertainty has arisen in you about what is doubtful. Come, Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise; nor upon an axiom; nor upon specious reasoning; nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over; nor upon another's seeming ability; nor upon the consideration, 'The monk is our teacher.' Kalamas, when you yourselves know: 'These things are bad; these things are blamable; these things are censured by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill,' abandon them."
authors[121] = "Anguttara Nikaya III.65, Kalama Sutta"

quotes[122] = "The harder you practice, the deeper you will penetrate your mind.  You will be able to distinguish different levels of experience, just as you can now differentiate between seeing water, drinking water, jumping into water, and becoming water."
authors[122] = "Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[123] = "Practice does not mean that you cut yourself off from the environment and withdraw your senses. You are still aware of everything. You appreciate beauty, avert danger, and so on. The practice comes in letting phenomena -- objects, ideas, feelings -- come and go without clinging to them, dwelling on them, indulging in them. The same is true when you meditate. You don't deal with your thoughts and emotions by suppressing them or denying them. You simply watch them come and go, like the wind. You have no choice. As long as you are a sentient being with vexations, thoughts and emotions are going to arise."
authors[123] = "Chan Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[124] = "Therefore, Ananda, you should live as islands unto yourselves, being your own refuge, with no one else as your refuge, with the Dhamma as an island, with the Dhamma as yor refuge, with no other refuge. And how does a monk live as an island unto himself,...with no other refuge? Here, Ananda, a monk abides contemplating the body as body, earnestly, clearly aware, mindful and having put away all hankering and fretting for the world, and likewise with regard to feelings, mind and mind-objects. That, Ananda, is how a monk lives as an island unto himself,...with no other refuge. And those who now in my time or afterwards live thus, they will become the highest, if they are desirous of learning."
authors[124] = "Digha Nikaya, Mahaparinibbana Sutta"

quotes[125] = "Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at li altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know that we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: 'This thing called corpse we dread so much is living with us here and now.'"
authors[125] = "Sogyal Rinpoche"

quotes[126] = "Offspring of Buddha, great enlightening beings have ten kinds of reliance. They take the determination for enlightenment as a reliance, as they never forget it. They take spiritual friends as a reliance, harmonizing as one. They take roots of goodness as a reliance, cultivating, gathering, and increasing them. They take the transcendent ways as a reliance, fully practicing them. They take all truths as a reliance, as they ultimately end in emancipation. They take great vows as a reliance, as they enhance enlightenment. They take practices as a reliance, consummating them all. They take all enlightening beings as a reliance because they have the same one wisdom. They take honoring the buddhas as a reliance because their faith is purified. They take all buddhas as a reliance because they teach ceaselessly like benevolent parents."
authors[126] = "The Avatamsaka Sutra"

quotes[127] = "He, refraining from such views, grasps at nothing in the world; and not grasping, he trembles not; and trembling not, he by himself attains to perfect peace. And he knows that rebirth is at an end, that the higher life has been fulfilled, that what had to be done has been accomplished, and that there is no more becoming."
authors[127] = "Digha Nikaya XV - 68"

quotes[128] = "Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha."
authors[128] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[129] = "Bhikkhus, there are these five courses of speech that others may use when they address you: their speech may be timely or untimely, true or untrue, gentle or harsh, connected with good or with harm, spoken with a mind of loving-kindness or with inner hate.... Herein, bhikkhus, you should train thus: 'Our minds will remain unaffected, and we shall utter no evil words; we shall abide compassionate for their welfare, with a mind of loving-kindness, without inner hate. We shall abide pervading that person with a mind imbued with loving-kindness, and starting with him, we shall abide pervading the all-encompassing world with a mind imbued with loving-kindness, abundant, exalted, immeasurable, without hostility and without ill will.' That is how you should train, bhikkhus."
authors[129] = "Kakacupama Sutta, Majjhima Nikaya"

quotes[130] = "Great moral questions we can answer easily in accordance with time and place if, now, we're mindful of this time and this place."
authors[130] = "Ajahn Sumedho"

quotes[131] = "Further, when a person is on the verge of death, at the last instant of life, when all his faculties scatter and he departs from his relatives, when all power and status are lost and nothing survives, when his prime minister, great officials, his inner court and outer cities, his elephants, horses, carts, and treasuries of precious jewels can no longer accompany him, these Great Vows alone will stay with him."
authors[131] = "Vows of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, Avatamsaka Sutra"

quotes[132] = "The efficacy of the prayer lies in the pure sincerity of the praying, which comes from one's strength of mind, and the strength of one's vows."
authors[132] = "Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[133] = "Great enlightening beings have ten kinds of spiritual friends. What are they? Spiritual friends who cause them to persist in the determination for enligtenment; spritual friends who cause them to generate roots of goodness; spritual friends who cause them to practice the ways of trancendence; spritual friends who enable them to analyze and explain all truths; spritual friends who enable them to develop all sentient beings; spritual friends who enable them to attain definitive analytic and expository powers; spritual friends who cause them not to be attached to any world; spritual friends who cause them to cultivate practice tirelessly in all ages; spritual friends who establish them in the practice of Universal Good; spritual friends who introduce them to the reaches of knowledge of all buddhas."
authors[133] = "Avatamsaka Sutra"


quotes[134] = "Then the Buddha said to his monks, walk over the earth for the blessing of many, for the happiness of many, out of compassion for the world, for the welfare and the blessing and the happiness of gods and men."
authors[134] = "Vinaya Pitaka"

quotes[135] = "With a joyful, stable attitude, you can handle any situation in a clear and objective manner. You can even face death. Perhaps you may think it is ridiculous to feel joyful about your death? Well - that.s your choice. You can choose joy or not. But if you do not choose to be happy before you die, you won.t have a chance to do so afterwards."
authors[135] = "Master Sheng-yen"

quotes[136] = "If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises. If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don't have to run away. You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly."
authors[136] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[137] = "A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for ten years.  He saw and spoke to no one, and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day, an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two...  It suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant."
authors[137] = "Anthony De Mello"

quotes[138] = "Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate." 
authors[138] = "Dhammapada"

quotes[139] = "You use the support of things outside yourself so that everything you see, everything you hear, brings back to mind this altruistic attitude and provides material for reflection. Nature itself thus becomes a book of teachings. Everything incites us to spititual practice."
authors[139] = "Matthieu Ricard"

quotes[140] = "Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoveries of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the inquiring constructive mind."
authors[140] = "Albert Einstein"

quotes[141] = "Just know yourself, this is your witness. Don't make decisions on the strength of your desires. Desires can puff us up into thinking we are something which we're not. We must be very circumspect."
authors[141] = "Ajahn Chah"

quotes[142] = "As long as the tree is behind you, you can see only its shadow. If you want to touch the reality, you have to turn around." 
authors[142] = "Master Tai Xu"

quotes[143] = "If you see with the eye of truth, there is nothing mundane which is not truth; if you look with the mundane eye, there is no truth that is not mundane."
authors[143] = "Elderly Li Tongxuan"

quotes[144] = "'Half of this holy life, Lord, is good and noble friends, companionship with the good, association with the good.' 'Do not say that, Ananda. Do not say that Ananda. It is the whole of this holy life, this friendship, companionship and association with the good.'"
authors[144] = "Samyutta Nikaya XLV.2, Upaddha Sutta"

quotes[145] = "All beings are by nature Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha."
authors[145] = "Hakuin Zenji"

quotes[146] = "'It is often though that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if one sees everything differently. It is not that at all. Suffering isn't going to go away; the one who suffers is going to go away.'"
authors[146] = "Ayya Khema"

quotes[147] = "'What matters isn?t how deeply calm and joyful you become while meditating in the mountains, but how generous and compassionate you are upon re-entering the world of suffering beings.'"
authors[147] = "Reb Anderson in 'Being Upright,' Rodmell Press 2001"

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