The Lankavatara Sutra Quotes

“Ultimate truth is not a statement, nor is ultimate truth what is expressed by a statement.”   “The”
― Thomas Cleary, The Lankavatara Sutra

“The leading principle of the goal is distinguished by first-hand experience, beyond speech, imagination, and words, reaching the realm where there is no impulse, the inherent characteristic of arrival at the stage of first-hand realization, excluding all the destructive forces of speculation and dogmatism.”   “The”
― Thomas Cleary, The Lankavatara Sutra

“Then what, Mahamati, is meaning?  With insight substantiated by thought and meditation on what has been heard, the one-flavored path to the city of nirvana, preceded by turning away from dependence on impressions by one’s own intelligence, examining the attainment defined by the particular meanings in the states of the stages in the domain of one’s own first-hand attainment, a great bodhisattva becomes familiar with meaning.”
― Thomas Cleary, The Lankavatara Sutra