Buddha Quotes

Sometimes people claim they don't need a crutch like Jesus, but he's not a crutch, he's a teacher. I...

Fat Charlie went back to his hotel room, the colour of underwater, where his lime sat, like a small ...

But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on ...

I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go...

In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as i...

To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given ...

Why say then Buddha never carried gun? he didn't play piano, we do not know of him making pictures e...

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

While the founder [of any religious or spiritual system] was still walking among his followers and d...

Matter,” Vittoria repeated. “Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks...

One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite po...

You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed...

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of...

The gods command that there can be only one king. But I swear that I am no better than a common sold...

There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached ...

The Buddha referred to married people as “householders.” He even gave clear instructions as to how o...

New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a c...

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to ...

Purity or impurity depends on oneself,No one can purify another.

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All thin...

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is...

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

True love is born from understanding.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disc...

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will d...

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearles...

How deaf and stupid I have been, he thought, walking on quickly. When anyone reads anything which he...

It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,...

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm...

Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solel...

The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say...

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and ...

The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virt...

She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman...