Buddhist Life Quotes: top 39 famous quotes about Buddhist Life

Buddhist Life Quotes & Sayings

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Buddhist monk Sogyal Rinpoche put it this way: "Perhaps it is only those who understand just how fragile life is who know how precious it is. — Lionel Fisher

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist. — Frederick Lenz

Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment. — Gautama Buddha

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. — Frederick Lenz

A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. — Dalai Lama

There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life. — Frederick Lenz

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there. — Damian Lewis

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup. — Gautama Buddha

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. — Gautama Buddha

Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind. — Gautama Buddha

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness. — Gil Fronsdal

Our lives are the best school in the universe because we all have to face happiness and madness — Dalin Shu

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects. — Duncan Sheik

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going. — Ayya Khema

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. — Gautama Buddha

As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation. — Dalai Lama XIV

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life. — Nhat Hanh

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay. — Gautama Buddha

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life. — Terence McKenna

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life. — Frederick Lenz

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism. — Frederick Lenz

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed. — Gautama Buddha

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time. — Pema Chodron

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk. — Burton Cummings

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness. — Frederick Lenz

In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek. — Frederick Lenz

Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself. — Frederick Lenz

All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? — Gautama Buddha

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation. — Frederick Lenz

To be honest, I'm trying to maintain a Buddhist detachment about the whole thing to stop it taking ten years off my life. — Mark Haddon

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life. — Jack Kornfield

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word. — Gautama Buddha

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion. — Frederick Lenz

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

Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do. — Gautama Buddha

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already. — Dalai Lama

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. — Gautama Buddha