Buddhism Quotes

A fearless heart is free of desire, a kind heart finds paradise everywhere.

Beyond this life andThis world I'll have it tilMy heart's content:The bright moon that passed overThe horizon before I had my fill.

As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.

O let us live in joy, in love among those who hate! Among men who hate, let us live in love.

Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.'Merchant: 'Well spoken...

Last year, Yoshino, I walked away bending branchesTo point me to blossoms--Which now are everywhere and I canGo where I've never been before.

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.

The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity. (217)

Health, wealth, reputation, and status are all mere ingredients of happiness. The key to true well-being is being able to manage them capably.

The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

Returning to whereIt used to see blossoms, My mind, changed, Will stay on at Yoshino...Home now, and see anew.

Enlightenment was not just Gautama Buddha's, but you too, individually, must find this new perspective of life, this new point of view in your life and in all things." -

There is no "I" as such apart from others.

Oneness and individuality coexist. There is no question about the importance and uniqueness of each individual life. However, difference is no difference. The very difference is equality, is one.

Only when I see myself truly is Gautama Buddha is present in me.

May we be free of the tyranny of our expectations of others.

We must find the way of love rather than that of being loved.

The four abiding abodes, The ideal attitude for a follower of the Buddhist teaching to maintain towards other living beings.

Aggression, Violence, Exploitation, Depression, Despair, Prejudice, War, Intolerance, Poverty, Are all a result of a misunderstanding of the nature of Self.

Yellow leaves hang on your tree of life. The messengers of death are waiting. You are going to travel far away. Have you any provisions for the journey?

Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. (attributed to Buddha)

It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world and the most profound pilgrimage that I can ever make is within my own body.

Even when dreaming, if the sentient beings who dwell in the three lower realms are witnessed, then at that moment one should pray to sever the continuity of their negat

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

Truth... has no obligation to console you.

Individuals create themselves through their moral choices. By freely and repeatedly choosing certain sorts of things, an individual shapes their character, and through their character their future.

itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling

all living creatures are entitled to respect in their own right, not simply because of the utility they may possess for other humans.

The self is a self-made Procrustean bedof little comfort

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

Some Buddhists have criticized secular Buddhism because they think it waters down Buddhism. I like to think of it as adding Buddhist flavoring to the sparkling water of secularism.

Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.

[Buddhism] takes us beyond a kind of self-centered narcissism because instead of identifying with the content of our experience, we identify with awareness itself.

If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.

All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.

Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.

Words!The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.

A maggot is just another life form.

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.

God is another word for Love.

No sane person fears nothingness.

He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

Karma means ‘action’. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.

Look for the heart of a tradition in the actions of its humble servants and selfless teachers. Listen and let the teachings be borne out, or set aside, based on your experience.

The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way