Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Martine Batchelor (French Buddhist Teacher)

Martine Batchelor (b.1953,) née Fages, is a French teacher of Zen Buddhism and author. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in Korea in 1975 and studied Zen Buddhism under Kusan Sunim at Songgwangsa monastery until 1984. She then returned her nun’s vows and left Korea. In 1985, she married a fellow Buddhist teacher Stephen Batchelor. The couple now lives in France and leads meditation retreats worldwide.

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An act of meditation is actually an act of faith—of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis of meditation. Not of faith in something outside you—a metaphysical Buddha, an unattainable ideal, or someone else’s words. The faith is in yourself, in your own “Buddha-nature”. You too can be a Buddha, an awakened being that lives and responds in a wise, creative, and compassionate way.
Martine Batchelor

Right action is not a fixed right action, it is an action that is conditioned by love and respect. It is an action that considers the consequences of our actions in terms of whether or not they cause suffering.
Martine Batchelor

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