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Passages similar to: Dhammapada — Chapter XIV: The Buddha (The Awakened)
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Dhammapada
Chapter XIV: The Buddha (The Awakened) (193)
A supernatural person (a Buddha) is not easily found, he is not born everywhere. Wherever such a sage is born, that race prospers.
Bhagavad Gita
Dhyāna Yoga (6.42)
Else, he is born in a family of wise Yogins only. This, verily, a birth like this, is very hard to obtain in this world.
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 8: The Buddha Path (16)
“To see a lotus flower blowing right in fire, this is indeed a rare thing; even so to practise meditation while leading a sensuous life, this is rare...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Womb-Birth: The Return to the Human World (40.1-40.2)
If, however, such [a supernormal birth] be not possible, and one delighteth in entering a womb or hath to enter, there is a teaching for the...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 10: The Buddha of the Fragrant Land (10)
The Bodhisattva asked: “What wonderful virtue is possessed by him who is able to make an incarnate Bodhisattva fearless in virtue and endowed with...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 10: The Buddha of the Fragrant Land (9)
The Buddha replied and said: “In the lower region beyond the Buddha-countries even equal to the number of the sands of forty-two Ganga rivers there...
Bhagavad Gita
Vijnana Yoga (7.19)
At the end of many births, the man of wisdom comes to Me, (realising) that Vasudeva is the all: he is the noble-souled (Mahatman), very hard to find.
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 11: The Bodhisattva Conduct (21)
“A Bodhisattva who has entered this doctrine seeing all the pure and excellent lands of the Buddhas neither attaches himself to it nor covets nor is...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 7: Looking at Living Beings (37)
O Sariputra, any [beings], either Sakra, or Brahman, or the four guardian gods, or deities, or serpents, or goblins, all entering this chamber, hear...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (7)
'He (the Self) of whom many are not even able to hear, whom many, even when they hear of him, do not comprehend; wonderful is a man, when found, who...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 10: The Buddha of the Fragrant Land (12)
Buddha said: “ Go ye [Bodhisattvas]. Keep back the fragrance of your bodies lest those beings feel attachment [towards you] in their minds. Again you...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Womb-Birth: The Return to the Human World (40.4-40.5)
Whatsoever they [the wombs or visions] may appear to be, do not regard them as they are [or seem]; and by not being attracted or repelled a good womb...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 8: The Buddha Path (17)
“To those who are timorous he manifests himself before them and gives them comfort: he first bestows fearlessness on them and then lets them awaken...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 7: Looking at Living Beings (41)
This chamber is ever frequented by such beings as Sakra Brahman and Bodhisattvas of different regions; this is the third of those things, which are...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 12 (1)
The Lord Buddha, continuing, said unto Subhuti: “Wherever this Scripture is proclaimed, even though it were but a stanza comprising four lines, you...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (30)
The Buddha continued : “ O Ratnakuta, beings of all kinds are the Buddha-world of the Bodhisattvas. And why ? A Bodhisattva establishes his world...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 12: Seeing Aksobhya Buddha (19)
When the world Abhirati was manifested, fourteen Nayutas of men in this Saha world cherished the thought of supreme enlightenment. They all wished to...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 8: The Buddha Path (13)
“ Though he understands that there is neither birth nor death, yet he manifests himself in all lands as the sun is seen from every quarter. “...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 10: The Buddha of the Fragrant Land (21)
Those Bodhisattvas having heard these words praised him saying: “We have never heard the like before; Sakyamuni, the world-honoured one, concealing...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 12: Seeing Aksobhya Buddha (11)
Vimalakirti said: “Even so is with a Bodhisattva; though he is born in the land of impurity in order to teach all beings, he is never united with the...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 6: The Inconceivable Liberation (24)
“ Again, in the nadir, passing through the countries equal in number to the sands of the river Ganga, he may take a Buddha-land [among them], and...
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