Introduction
“I can’t. This is important”: Randall Munroe, “Duty Calls” XKCD, accessed 24 Nov, 2017 https://xkcd.com/386/.
“the Cetana sutta”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Tr.), “Cetana Sutta: An Act of Will” (AN 11.2), Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 4 July 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an11/an11.002.than.html.
“simply another form of mental illness”: Lama Yeshe, The Peaceful Stillness of the Silent Mind (Lincoln, MA: Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, 2004), 49.
“there is no grief, whence then fear?”: Acharya Buddharakkhita, “Piyavagga: Affection,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.16.budd.html.
“set their hearts on knowing them”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Ani Sutta: The Peg,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn20/sn20.007.than.html.
“pardon each other’s folly”: François Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1923), 302.
The Quotes
“not the purpose of being clung to”: Nyanaponika Thera, “Alagaddupama Sutta: The Snake Simile,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.022.nypo.html.
“not to get what one wants is suffering”: Ñanamoli Thera “Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 13 June 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn56/sn56.011.nymo.html.
“The worldling is like a madman”: “Ummattako viya hi puthujjano.” Bhikkhu Ñanamoli, Visuddhimagga: The Path of Purification (Colombo: Buddhist Publication Society, 2010), 595.
“things that are wholesome are unwholesome”: Andrew Olendzki, “Vipallasa Sutta: Distortions of the Mind,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 2 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.049.olen.html.
“his desire and pride increase”: Acharya Buddharakkhita, “Balavagga: The Fool,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.05.budd.html.
“one protects one’s store of wealth”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Dighajanu (Vyagghapajja) Sutta: To Dighajanu,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an08/an08.054.than.html.
“the blessings of the holy life”: Acharya Buddharakkhita, “Yamakavagga: Pairs,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.01.budd.html.
“so I preach to all”: W. E. Soothill, The Lotus of the Wonderful Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922), 127.
“is called just”: Dhammapada 257: Acharya Buddharakkhita, “Dhammatthavagga: The Just,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.19.budd.html.
“enter and remain in them”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Kalama Sutta: To the Kalamas,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an03/an03.065.than.html.
“drowsiness once it has arisen”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Ahara Sutta: Food,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn46/sn46.051.than.html.
“Karma, I tell you, is intention”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Nibbedhika Sutta: Penetrative,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an06/an06.063.than.html.
“the welfare of all living beings”: Ñanamoli Thera, “Cula-kammavibhanga Sutta: The Shorter Exposition of Kamma,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.135.nymo.html.
“what was done in the past”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu “Tittha Sutta: Sectarians,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an03/an03.061.than.html.
“subject to cessation”: See for example, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Upatissa-pasine: Upatissa’s (Sariputta’s) Question,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/vin/mv/mv.01.23.01-10.than.html.
“published in 1994”: Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book (New York: Bantam, 1994), 68.
“spoken by the Tathagata”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu “Abhasita Sutta: What Was Not Said,” Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 4 August 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an02/an02.023.than.html.
“what you think about it”: Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People (New York: Pocket Books, 1998), 67.
“never-departing shadow”: Acharya Buddharakkhita, “Yamakavagga: Pairs,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.01.budd.html.
“wish for another to suffer”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “The Khuddakapatha,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/khp/khp.1-9.than.html.
“the benefit of the poison”: Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 91.
“it would be very discouraging”: Eve Curie, Madame Curie: A Biography (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1937), 116.
“who we are and what the world is”: Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Luis Borges: A Personal Anthology (New York: Grove Press, 1967), 136.
“what God and man is”: Edmund Clarence Stedman, A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895 (Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1896), 211.
“within this fathom-long body”: See, for example, Thanissaro Bhikkhu “Rohitassa Sutta: To Rohitassa,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.045.than.html.
“see a specialist”: David M. Bader, Zen Judaism: For You a Little Enlightenment (New York: Harmony Books, 2007), 25.
“mind of loving-kindness”: Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Boston, MA: Wisdom, 2012), 816.
“the shit that weighs you down”: Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (New York, NY: Vintage International, 2004), 179.
“they are dear to themselves”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu “Piya Sutta: Dear,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn03/sn03.004.than.html.
“lamentation, longing, and sorrow”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu “Salla Sutta: The Arrow,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.3.08.than.html.
“fills himself with good”: Acharya Buddharakkhita, “Papavagga: Evil,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.09.budd.html.
“that can prevail”: Arthur Waley, Tao Te Ching (Ware, Herts.: Wordsworth Editions, 1997), 82.
“does not come to an end”: Bhikkhuni Uppalavanna, “Pabbata Sutta,” Wikipitaka: The Completing Tipitaka, accessed Oct 15, 2017, http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Pabbata_Sutta.
“the absence of distinctions”: “Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Volume II,” Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism Library, accessed Oct 16, 2017, http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-2/Content/315#para-68.
“In that way, monks, you should reject it”: Sister Vajira and Francis Story, “Maha-parinibbana Sutta: Last Days of the Buddha,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.16.1-6.vaji.html.
“true success is to labor”: Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910), 170.
“the only moment we have”: Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear (New York: Riverhead Books, 2002), 100.
“Elsewhere”: Thich Nhat Hanh, Cultivating the Mind of Love, (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1998), 81
“has not been reached”: Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), 1039.
“a kindness done”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Dullabha Sutta: Hard to Find,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 4 August 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an02/an02.119.than.html.
“one of my followers”: Translation simplified from Bhikkhu Bodhi, Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Boston, MA: Wisdom, 2000). 712.
“other than Freedom”: Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), 140.
“not broken through to”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Kotthita Sutta: With Kotthita,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an09/an09.013.than.html.
“a holy man”: Acharya Buddharakkhita, “Brahmanavagga: The Holy Man,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.26.budd.html.
“the moon freed from clouds”: Acharya Buddharakkhita, “Bhikkhuvagga: The Monk,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.25.budd.html.
“I have not given you a system”: Osho, “The Diamond Sutra: The Buddha Also Said,” (London: Watkins Media, 2017).
“bound up with suffering”: John D. Ireland, “Salla Sutta: The Arrow,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.3.08.irel.html.
“keep on seeking outside”: Ruth Fuller Sasaki, The Record of Linji (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009), 22.
“disagreeable to me”: Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Boston, MA: Wisdom, 2000), 1797.
“in order to develop insight”: See for example, Thanissaro Bhikkhu “Kimattha Sutta: What is the Purpose?” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an11/an11.001.than.html.
“you wanted to suffer”: Osho, “Voice of Silence,” Osho.com, http://www.osho.com/iosho/library/read-book/online-library-hillary-tensing-suffering-e0b5ed43-3a5?p=9641afa86abbc0d-742d19532ad0847bd
“as though joined with it”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Sallatha Sutta: The Arrow,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn36/sn36.006.than.html.
“like an enemy”: Kate Crosby and Andrew Skilton, The Bodhicaryavatara (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 1995), 7.
“by the wise for themselves”: For example, see Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Gilana Sutta: Sick” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn41/sn41.010.than.html. “To be realized by the wise for themselves” is veditabbo viññuhi.
“to be experienced by the wise”: For example, see Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta: To Vacchagotta on Fire,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.072.than.html. “To be experienced by the wise” is panditavedaniyo.
“charming, profitable, and easeful”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Bija Sutta: The Seed” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.104.than.html.
“deep in the forest”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Nagara Sutta: The City,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn12/sn12.065.than.html.
“failure, not success”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Micchatta Sutta: Wrongness,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.103.than.html.
“peace of mind”: Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2012), 233.
“to the profit of both “: Maurice O’Connell Walshe, “Sangaravo Sutta: Sangarava,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn46/sn46.055.wlsh.html.
“still their hatred”: Acharya Buddharakkhita, “Yamakavagga: Pairs,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.01.budd.html.
“confessed his transgression”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Bala-pandita Sutta: Fools & Wise People,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 4 August 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an02/an02.021.than.html.
“mindful and remains calm”: Andrew Olendzki, “Vepacitti Sutta: Calm in the Face of Anger,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 2 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn11/sn11.004.olen.html.
“free from hatred”: Acharya Buddharakkhita, “Sukhavagga: Happiness,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.15.budd.html
“loved by the good”: Miguel de Cervantes, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Volume 2, (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1885), 327.
“translated later in his life”: Thomas Byrom, The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita (Boston: Shambhala, 1990). Byrom’s rendition of the Dhammapada is still in print: Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha (Boston: Shambhala, 1976).
“actions as their refuge”: Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), 1053.
“lead to their arising”: See for example Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Ittha Sutta: What is Welcome,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an05/an05.043.than.html.
“float to the shore?”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Pac-cha-bhumika Sutta: [Brahmans] of the Western Land” (SN 42.6)”. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn42/sn42.006.than.html
“we and others speak”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu “Uttara Sutta: About Uttara,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an08/an08.008.than.html.
“Isis Unveiled”: Vsevolod Sergyeevich Solovyoff, A Modern Priestess of Isis (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895), 353–366.
“my mind will be unafflicted”: Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Nakulapita Sutta: To Nakulapita,” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.001.than.html.
“intent on one’s own goal”: Narada Thera, The Dhammapada 4th Edition, (Taipei, Taiwan: The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, 1993), 150.
“intent on the highest good”: Gil Fronsdal, The Dhammapada: Teachings of the Buddha (Boston: Shambhala, 2005), 41.