Buddhism Quotes

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Mo...

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes,Or any searcher know by mortal mind,Veil after veil will lift--...

When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, "Our children upset us...

... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the term...

It is entirely conceivable that life's splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all it...

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

What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Ever...

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him su...

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his ...

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

First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words;Second, rely on the teachin...

Attachment leads to suffering.

Greater in battlethan the man who would conquera thousand-thousand men,is he who would conquerjust o...

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you ...

Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the buil...

These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:Long l...

These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:Long l...

Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning?The eye is burning, visible forms are b...

Like a caring motherholding and guarding the lifeof her only child,so with a boundless heartof lovin...

You only lose what you cling to.

Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, b...

All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inhe...

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

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

Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in...

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.

It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people...

Monks, even if bandits were to savagely sever you, limb by limb, with a double-handled saw, even the...

Live in joy, in love,even among those who hate.Live in joy, in health,even among the afflicted.Live ...

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many...

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts o...

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

Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth,Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds,Is the j...

I shall live here in the rains,There in winter,Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool,Not aware of the...

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

You are as the yellow leaf.The messengers of death are at hand.You are to travel far away.What will ...

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

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, hea...

Suppose a man threw into the sea a yoke with one hole in it, and the east wind carried it to the wes...

Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclama...

Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purificatio...

Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant als...

desires are not killed by fulfilling them

And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his ...

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed man...

...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force....

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asi...

I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without e...

the golden eternity is { }

If I am all the time measuring myself against you, struggling to be like you, then I am denying what...

You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffer...

The Buddhist ideal of awakening implies that we can sever our links with our evolutionary past. We c...

...you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for eve...

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

Long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there-not because ...

[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in ...

But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the a...

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is...

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's d...

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, ...

Allah protect us,' Bold said politely. Then, in Arabic, 'In the name of God, the merciful, the compa...

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasu...

It’s said that the Buddha’s enlightenment is great than that of a traveler setting out, in the same ...

Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind, rooted in insight. But in its perfection and un...

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with t...

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. ...

The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structu...

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minu...

Somewhere Dōgen wrote about the number of moments in the snap of a finger. I don’t remember the exac...

To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid,...

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you w...

We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy...

Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are o...

Even in zazen you will lose yourself. When you become sleepy, or when your mind starts to wander abo...

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi r...

When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on...

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating...

After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to w...

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed...

The story of the Fall tells us in mythical language that "original sin" is not simply a stigma arbit...

Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do...

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then...

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any be...

Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for y...

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

The only real flesh was the flesh that existed in his imagination. Since, therefore, he regarded the...

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurtu...

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.