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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)
Verily, such a birth is hard to gain in this world.
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 8: The Buddha Path (16)
Like that thing most rare, a lotus blossoming in a scorching fire, he meditates amidst desires, which also is a thing most rare. Or, he appears as a...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (30)
The Buddha said: “Ratna-rasi, all species of living beings are the Buddha land sought by all Bodhisattvas. Why is it so? Because a Bodhisattva wins...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (58)
The Buddha said: “This Buddha land of mine is always pure, but appears filthy so that I can lead people of inferior spirituality to their salvation....
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (51)
The Buddha said: “Sariputra, because of their (spiritual) blindness, living beings do not see the imposing majesty of the Tathagata’s pure land; this...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 8: The Buddha Path (13)
Though he knows there is neither birth nor death, he is reborn to show himself to all, appearing in many countries. Like the sun seen by everyone....
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 12: Seeing Aksobhya Buddha (11)
Vimalakirti said: “Likewise, a Bodhisattva, although born in an unclean Buddha land, does not join and unite with the darkness of ignorance but...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 11: The Bodhisattva Conduct (21)
“When entering this Dharma door, if a Bodhisattva sees all the clean Buddha lands, he should not give rise to joy, desire and pride, and if he sees...
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...
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 (25)
Who knows how living beings come and go and penetrates all things to win His freedom, who is skillful in nirvanic deeds, cannot be soiled like the...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 12: Seeing Aksobhya Buddha (18)
The Buddha said: “If a Bodhisattva wishes to live in such a pure and clean Buddha land, he should practise the path trodden by the Immutable...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 10: The Buddha of the Fragrant Land (12)
That Buddha warned them: “You may go there but hide your fragrance, if not, the people give rise to the wrong thought of clinging to it. You should...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (59)
When this Buddha land (i.e. the world) appeared in its majestic purity, the five hundred sons of elders, who came with Ratna-rasi, realized the...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 10: The Buddha of the Fragrant Land (9)
Their Buddha replied: “There is a world called saha, which is below and is separated from here by Buddha lands as countless as the sand grains in...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 14 (3)
The Lord Buddha, assenting, said unto Subhuti: “If, in future ages, disciples destined to hear this Scripture, neither become perturbed by its...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 8: The Buddha Path (12)
Whose five supernatural powers are walking elephants and horses while the Mahayana is his vehicle, which controlled by the one mind, rolls through...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Bardo Body: Its Birth and Its Supernormal Faculties (23.13)
O nobly-born, thou art actually endowed with the power of miraculous action, which is not, however, the fruit of any samadhi, but a power come to...
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