Top 53 Buddha Meditation Quotes
#1. Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
Gautama Buddha
#2. There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
Gautama Buddha
#3. Real Martial Arts is Mathematics, Physics, Poetry; Meditation in Action
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#4. Just two small things: meditation and let-go. Remember these two key words: meditation and surrender. Meditation will take you in, and surrender will take you into the whole. And this is the whole of religion. Within these two words Buddha has condensed the whole essence of religion.
Rajneesh
#5. Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#6. Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.
Gautama Buddha
#7. There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.
Gautama Buddha
#9. The calligraphy reads, "Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha." Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha, or practicing meditation is nothing other than studying ourselves.
Pema Chodron
#10. Understand the suffering of worldly existence.
Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness.
Practice the path of meditation and compassion.
Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.
Gautama Buddha
#11. If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.
Nhat Hanh
#12. Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.
Gautama Buddha
#13. Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
Gautama Buddha
#14. At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
Frederick Lenz
#15. One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.
Gautama Buddha
#16. Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.
Gautama Buddha
#17. There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous?
Gautama Buddha
#18. There is a wager that we must all make; for the small stake of some rewarding mental training, we can attain lasting contentment and contribute to a positive outcome for our planet.
Neil Hayes
#19. How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.
Gautama Buddha
#20. Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ.
Rajneesh
#21. Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.
Gautama Buddha
#22. In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.
Gautama Buddha
#23. I meditate in the morning, and my daughter will do it with me, looking like the most perfect little Buddha. I'll do ten minutes of yoga, then two to ten minutes of meditation. She'll sit there quietly half the time.
Alysia Reiner
#25. If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Gautama Buddha
#26. How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.
Gautama Buddha
#27. When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.
Gautama Buddha
#28. Don't give yourself to negligence,
Don't devote yourself to sensual pleasure,
Vigilant and absorbed in meditation
One attains abundant happiness.
Gautama Buddha
#29. If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.
Gautama Buddha
#30. If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.
Gautama Buddha
#31. If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.
Gautama Buddha
#32. In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
In Illumination, all things appear as is.
Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.
Sheng Yen
#33. A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.
Gautama Buddha
#34. If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.
Gautama Buddha
#35. Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that ... And this is not a belief that you can get from me or from Buddha or from Jesus. This is not knowledge; you will have to see it. You can see it right now!
Rajneesh
#36. But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
Bodhidharma
#37. When we sit in meditation, we are closer than usual to the world as it is. By simply bringing body, breath, and mind together in the present moment, we touch Buddha; we touch reality, and we are in the world as it is. Most people's experience in this state is peaceful and rejuvenating.
Andrew Furst
#38. From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.
Gautama Buddha
#39. Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.
Sakshi Chetana
#40. The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.
Gautama Buddha
#41. Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
Gautama Buddha
#42. In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.
Dalai Lama
#43. You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death
Gautama Buddha
#44. How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.
Gautama Buddha
#45. Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness.
Rajneesh
#46. When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.
Gautama Buddha
#47. The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.
Neil Hayes
#48. One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.
Gautama Buddha
#49. You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"
Eckhart Tolle
#50. Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.
Sharon Salzberg
#51. I can go shopping and pick up some Bounty Towels, the three pack, I can go home and open those up and look at them and see more infinity than in the Buddha's best meditation. If I can't do that, that means I'm wrapped by the Buddha's best meditation.
Frederick Lenz
#52. Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.
Gautama Buddha
#53. The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.
Joseph Campbell
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