Buddha's Teaching Quotes

#1. I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. Let those who desire Buddhahood not train in many Dharmas but only one.
Which one? Great compassion.
Those with great compassion possess all the Buddha's teaching as if it were in the palm of their hand.

Gautama Buddha

#3. The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.

Norm Phelps

#4. Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Ricky Martin

#5. Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

Izumi Shikibu

#6. Nonfear is the cream of the Buddha's teaching. Practicing

Thich Nhat Hanh

#7. I always say, don't be a Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be a Muslim, be Mohammed-like. Be Buddha-like. Emulate these great spiritual Masters and what they were teaching.

Wayne Dyer

#8. The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

#9. Hindu philosophy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the advent and the teachings of the Lord Buddha. I revere Buddha as a reformer of not only Hinduism but also the world, who has given all of us a new world view and vision which is critical for the survival of all of us and the entire world.

Narendra Modi

#10. To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.

D.T. Suzuki

#11. If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.

Gautama Buddha

#12. Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.

Gautama Buddha

#14. To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

Gautama Buddha

#15. The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

Nhat Hanh

#16. To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

Gautama Buddha

#17. The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.

Frederick Lenz

#18. It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

Walpola Rahula

#19. Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.

Gautama Buddha

#20. I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind.

Debasish Mridha

#21. A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

Gautama Buddha

#22. Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

Dalai Lama

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

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#24. Rely on the teaching, not on the person;
Rely on the meaning, not on the words;
Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional;
Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.

Gautama Buddha

#25. I don't teach. I just show them why to learn, what to learn, how to learn, and the ultimate purpose of learning.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

Gautama Buddha

#27. The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable ... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature of an enlightened person. They are the four aspects of true love within ourselves and within everyone and everything.

Nhat Hanh

#28. The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

Dalai Lama

#29. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.

Debasish Mridha

#30. The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied: Cease to do evil; Learn to do well; Cleanse your own heart; This is the religion of the Buddha.

Arthur E. Powell

#31. Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.

Jeanne M. Lee

#32. It is said that "there is a self," but "non-self" too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is "neither self nor non-self." Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha.

Nagarjun

#33. Buddha, Confucius, or Socrates can bring us good teaching, moral excellence, and religious philosophy. For this they may be commended as rendering help and aid to humanity. But Jesus Christ is different: He brings us Himself as our Life.

Chip Brogden

#34. Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Gautama Buddha

#35. Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened.

Gautama Buddha

#36. My beliefs are that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then it becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be Buddha-like.

Wayne Dyer

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

Jack Kornfield

#38. Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Eckhart Tolle

#39. The Buddha shared his teachings so that everyone, without exception, could reach the same supreme state of liberation that he had attained through practice and effort.

Shinjo Ito

#40. The teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be Pure.

Gautama Buddha

#41. Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

Gautama Buddha

#42. These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!

Gautama Buddha

#43. The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching of the Awakened.

Gautama Buddha

#44. It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! (character of Siddhartha, speaking to the Buddha)

Hermann Hesse

#45. Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience.

Shunryu Suzuki

#46. How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own experience - free from the clouds of religiosity that often surround them Yet it's difficult to distinguish the tools themselves from their cultural packaging.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

#47. Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

Gautama Buddha

#48. Today we can see many different forms of Buddhism, such as Zen and Theravada Buddhism. All these different aspects are practices of Buddha's teachings, and all are equally precious; they are just different presentations.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso