Guo Cheen

Mahayana Buddhist nun at a small center but has a big wish for all that benefit beings. Learn more at The Compassion Network & North American Buddhist Alliance.

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

"Buddhist monism is explained as three different schools."

-- the Lotus Sutra

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“For those who believe me and accept me upon first seeing me in person and hearing what I say, they shall enter the wisdom of Thus Come Ones.”

— the Flower Ornament Scripture

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“Everything flows from the Realm of Reality. Everything returns to verify the Realm of Reality.”

-- the Treatise on the Ten Stages

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“Nine waterflows therefore intersect and return to the source while a multitude of sages meet in profound depth.”

-- someone of ancient times

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“Although one does not rely on the path of languages, one is not attached to the absence of spoken words either.”

— the Flower Ornament Scripture

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“Know that the nature of Dharmas is still and untraceable, like birds crossing the sky, leaving not a trace.”

-- Appearance of the Buddha, the Flower Ornament Scripture

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“The nature of Dharma is fundamentally non-dual; the absence of duality is absent furthermore.”

— the Ten Dedications, the Flower Ornament Scripture

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“Ordinary people do not awaken to or understand that the Buddhas made the orthodox Dharma abide, and yet no Dharma abides. Enlighten to this and see your inherent body.”

— the Flower Ornament Scripture

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“In the void there is no duality as duality is void too. All are empty throughout the Triple Realm -- that is the view of all Buddhas.”

— the Flower Ornament Scripture

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“All Buddhas speak of the Dharma of emptiness to eradicate the view of existence. Were we to see existence as emptiness again, no Buddha would need to change us.”

--Knowledge of the Middle Way

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“Only the sickness of emptiness exists, but that sickness of emptiness is empty too.”

-- The Sūtra Spoken by Vimalakīrti

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

"Wishing to attain such a wonderful faculty of tongue, enlightening beings commit early on to awakening to share the Dharma."

— the Ten Abodes, the Flower Ornament Scripture

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

"Enlightening beings articulate every word and sound in the world so they may become liberated and ascertain a quiet extinction.”

— the Ten Abodes, the Flower Ornament Scripture

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

"Wishing to understand their inherent nature, enlightening beings base their early commitments on words."

— the Ten Abodes, the Flower Ornament Scripture

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

"...enlightening beings commit to awakening first by proclaiming the Dharma in all beings’ languages, endlessly but with a single word."

— the Ten Abodes, the Flower Ornament Scripture

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“Wishing to respond universally, enlightening beings proclaim according to kind, throughout the ten directions with one wondrous sound of quiescence."

— the Flower Ornament Scripture

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Uni-Verse,from a Buddhist mind:“Altho we know that Dharmas neither come in2 being nor cease2B, fine features adorn bodies of Dharma. Altho we know Buddhalands & beings R empty, we cultivate always the Pureland practice 2teach &transform all beings.”The Sūtra Spoken by Vimalakīrti

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“Without rejecting words, speak on liberation.”

-- The Sūtra Spoken by Vimalakīrti

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“The Dharma speaker shall speak according to the Dharma.”

-- The Sūtra Spoken by Vimalakīrti

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Uni-Verse, from a Buddhist mind:

“The Dharma speaker speaks nothing and instructs on nothing.”

--The Sūtra Spoken by Vimalakīrti