#samantabhadra

The resting mind and the moving mind are the union of emptiness and luminosity. We perceive differences due to our confusion. Stillness does not obstruct motion, and motion does not obstruct stillness. They are simply one inseparable entity.

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普賢菩薩（ふげんぼさつ）は、仏教における菩薩の一尊です。仏教では、悟りを求めて修行する存在である菩薩の中でも、重要な役割を担う菩薩です。普賢菩薩は、白象に乗った姿で表され、知恵や実践力を象徴しています。仏教の経典である「法華経」では、文殊菩薩と共に釈迦如来の脇侍として描かれ、仏の教えを広める役割を担っています。普賢菩薩は、知恵を象徴する道具である剣や経典を持ち、人々を導く存在として信仰を集めています。寺院や仏像、絵画などでも普賢菩薩の姿を見ることができ、仏教美術において重要なモチーフとなっています。

A painted image of Fugen Bodhisattva of Long Life (普賢延命菩薩) dating to the 12th century

[Thangka art is not signed and the artists, sometimes working alone or sometimes in a small group or school, remain unknown. Some of their work takes years to complete. The staff atop an elephant, it is likely the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra (on many Zen altars, Manjushri and Samantabhadra are to either side of the Buddha)]

[Red Pine (translator) :: Bill Porter (author)]

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“So what will happen to your consciousness? Your consciousness, yours, not anyone else's. Well, what are you? There's the point. Let's try to find out. What is it about you that you have always known as yourself? What are you conscious of in yourself? Your kidneys? Your liver? Your blood vessels? No. However far back you go in your memory, it is always in some external active manifestation of yourself that you come across your identity—in the work of your hands, in your family, in other people. And now listen carefully. You in others—this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life—your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what now? You have always been in others and you will remain in others. And what does it mater to you if later on that is called your memory? This will be you—the you that enters the future and becomes a part of it.”

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