Buddha's Quotes
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Buddha's Quotes & Sayings
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I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.
— Gautama Buddha
The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening - often rude awakening.
— Jay Michaelson
Nonfear is the cream of the Buddha's teaching. Practicing
— Thich Nhat Hanh
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
— Gautama Buddha
In separateness lies the world's greatest misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.
— Gautama Buddha
A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.
— Gautama Buddha
A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader's mind with the ecstasy of joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Kindness! What a wonderful way to touch someone's heart.
— Debasish Mridha
The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.
— Gautama Buddha
The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.
— Gautama Buddha
Some people believe I am the third Buddha, but this is people's choice. From me, never. I have never pretended I am special.
— Kelsang Gyatso
Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart.
— Debasish Mridha
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
— Gautama Buddha
Life is an incredible adventure into the mysterious unknown future.
— Debasish Mridha
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
— Gautama Buddha
If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.
— Shunryu Suzuki
I like a little chaos. I think that's really true for my inner Buddha. I think I like a little nutsy. Maybe I can't take total peace.
— Meredith Vieira
Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.
— Jeanne M. Lee
When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: on this Earth I attained Liberation.
— Frederick Franck
Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires.
— Zeena Schreck
It's time we put the bud back in Buddha and the sap back in Homo sapiens, and end this age of folly - this folly-age!
— S.J. Cameron
I love you every day as if it is Valentine's day.
— Debasish Mridha
When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare
— Gautama Buddha
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.
— Robert Thurman
Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.
— Gautama Buddha
Though all one's life a fool associates with a wise person,one no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavor of the soup.
— Gautama Buddha
Ah! Such a beautiful morning! Let us be the sunshine in someone's life and fill her heart with untold joy.
— Debasish Mridha
What's done to the children is done to society.
— Gautama Buddha
At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
— Frederick Lenz
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.
— Gautama Buddha
What in the name of Buddha's bra is he going on about now?
— Louise Rennison
Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha's buddha nature.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.
— Gautama Buddha
Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.
— Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
Attachment," Buddha had said, "is the cause of grief.
— Pearl S. Buck
The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.
— S. N. Goenka
There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.
— Gautama Buddha
Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.
— Anthony Horowitz
Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha's path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.
— Jack Kornfield
Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.
— Anagarika Dharmapala
Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.
— Izumi Shikibu
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?
— Gautama Buddha
The Buddha's last words instructed us to be heedful - to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.
— Thanissaro Bhikkhu
It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.
— Jack Kornfield
Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.
— Henepola Gunaratana
By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.
— Gautama Buddha
There are no chains like hate ... dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.
— Gautama Buddha
AS one instructs others,
So should one do oneself:
Only the self-controlled should restrain others.
Truly, it's hard to restrain oneself. — Gautama Buddha
So should one do oneself:
Only the self-controlled should restrain others.
Truly, it's hard to restrain oneself. — Gautama Buddha
A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching of the Awakened. — Gautama Buddha
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching of the Awakened. — Gautama Buddha
Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.
— Gautama Buddha
I don't know why I feel so crazy ... I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.
— Dawn French
All life is temporary
Why worry about anything that's only temporary — Gautama Buddha
Why worry about anything that's only temporary — Gautama Buddha
Every memory is precious. It is more precious when it is a memory of a baby's smile.
— Debasish Mridha
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization.
— Abhijit Naskar
Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.
— Roger Zelazny
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
— Gautama Buddha
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
— Dogen
Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.
— Gautama Buddha
All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
— Gautama Buddha
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. - BUDDHA
— Gay Hendricks
Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.
— Gautama Buddha
Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.
— Gautama Buddha
Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.
— Gautama Buddha
Kindness is the ultimate essence of life; compassion is the ultimate evidence of love.
— Debasish Mridha
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
— Gautama Buddha
We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.
— Dalai Lama XIV
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods ...
— Gautama Buddha
We are all mother's of the Buddha because we are all pregnant with the potential for awakening.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.
— D.T. Suzuki
There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.
— Gautama Buddha
According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered.
— Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
A fool suffers, thinking,
"I have children! I have wealth!"
One's self is not even one's own.
How then are children? How then is wealth? — Gautama Buddha
"I have children! I have wealth!"
One's self is not even one's own.
How then are children? How then is wealth? — Gautama Buddha
I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.
— Gautama Buddha
It's your road ... and yours alone ... Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. No matter what path you choose, really walk it.
— Gautama Buddha
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.
— Gautama Buddha
Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.
— Reb Anderson
When all else fails, drink some tea. Really. You'll be amazed how many problems it can solve. We like to think of it as Buddha's whiskey.
— Tara Cottrell
Giving with love is more rewarding for the giver's heart and mind than the receiver
— Debasish Mridha
Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.
— Gautama Buddha
If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
— Gautama Buddha
Your greatest weapon is your enemy's mind
— Gautama Buddha