Buddha Living Quotes

#1. The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.

Sengcan

#2. One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

Gautama Buddha

#3. Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead.

Hsuan Hua

#4. A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down

Gautama Buddha

#5. He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

Gautama Buddha

#6. The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

Tara Brach

#7. Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha.

Zenkei Shibayama

#8. Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king.' Nonsense. Some consider me as a demon or a wolf in Buddhist robes. That also, I think nonsense.

Dalai Lama

#9. When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

Gautama Buddha

#10. If a person does not harm any living being ... and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

Gautama Buddha

#11. You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.

Nhat Hanh

#12. Every living being has the potential to become a Buddha: someone who has completely purified his or her mind of all faults and limitations and has brought all good qualities to perfection.

Kelsang Gyatso

#13. Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.

Gautama Buddha

#14. He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

Gautama Buddha

#15. All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

Gautama Buddha

#16. You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them.

Frederick Lenz

#17. In Buddhism we also interprete Dharma to mean 'cessation,' as in the end of dissatisfaction, the end of dukkha. This is the purpose of Buddha's teachings.

David Michie

#18. Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

Gautama Buddha

#19. If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings
this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

Gautama Buddha

#20. Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#21. Life is to be experienced in totality. Try not to blame others like spouse, parents, friends, fellow beings or situations for any suffering.. Never allow your vibe to go to a lower level. This way you will attract more and more positive circumstances in your life.

Sakshi Chetana

#22. One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

Gautama Buddha

#23. All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

Gautama Buddha

#24. One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#25. For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Gautama Buddha

#26. Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine

Gautama Buddha

#27. I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be saved Preach to them a variety of dharmas, Each time having this thought: 'How may I cause the beings To contrive to enter the Unexcelled Path and quickly to perfect the Buddha-body?'

Gautama Buddha

#28. Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it ...

Gautama Buddha

#29. This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

Gautama Buddha

#30. Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.

Gautama Buddha

#31. As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Gautama Buddha

#32. O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

Gautama Buddha

#33. And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#34. Maybe Christ was promoting Buddhism, maybe Buddha wasn't a prophet, maybe the Quran is older than its Prophet, and maybe we shouldn't spend another two thousand years living a lie, just because we fear the truth and the darkness it reveals within us.

Daniel Marques

#35. Those who do not know satisfaction, even when living in a heavenly palace, are still not satisfied. Those who do not know satisfaction, even if rich, are poor. People who know satisfaction, even if poor, are rich.

Gautama Buddha

#36. Those who consider the inessential to be essential
And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential,
Living in the field of wrong intention

Gautama Buddha

#37. Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#38. We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

Gautama Buddha

#39. Every day, I am thinking:
'How can I lead all living beings
to enter the unsurpassed way
so as to quickly acquire the body of a Buddha?
(LS 16: 3.23)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 16, Section 3, Paragraph 23

Gautama Buddha

#40. Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#41. One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.

Gautama Buddha

#42. The Buddha is like space, with no inherent nature; appearing in the world to benefit the living, his features and refinements are like reflections.

Thomas Cleary

#43. Every living thing is sacred to me. Compassion and love can heal this world, which is set on fire of violence and hatred. I will teach the world about compassion, and end the suffering by halting these floods of sorrow. Said Prince Siddhartha and began his journey of saving the man kind." ,

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#44. Having dreams without enthusiasm is like a bird living in a cage.

Debasish Mridha

#45. Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

Gautama Buddha

#46. Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

Gautama Buddha

#47. Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.

Dalai Lama