Fake Buddha quote: Shakyamuni Buddha was asked: “What have you gained from Meditation?” He replied: “Nothing. However, let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old Age and Death.”
Seen in writings of Eknath Easwaran, Douglas M. Burns, and Osho (aka Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh).
Real quotations:
Huang Po, as translated by John Blofeld in “The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind”
I truly attained nothing from complete unexcelled Enlightenment. Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with your dualism, your likes and dislikes.”
Dogen Zenji, Shushogi, as translated by Rev. Abbess Jiyu Kennett and Rev. Abbot Suigan Yogo
The most important question for all Buddhists is how to understand birth and death completely for then, should yoube able to find the Buddha within birth and death, they bothvanish. All you have to do is realise that birth and death, as such, should not be avoided and they will cease to exist forthen, if you can understand that birth and death are Nirvanaitself, there is not only no necessity to avoid them but also nothing to search for that is called Nirvana. The understanding of the above breaks the chains that bind one to birth anddeath therefore this problem, which is the greatest in allBuddhism, must be completely understood.