Buddhist Nature Quotes

#1. For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

Gautama Buddha

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

Gautama Buddha

#3. The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Gautama Buddha

#4. Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits.

Namkhai Norbu

#5. Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

Amit Ray

#6. Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

Adeline Yen Mah

#7. Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#8. The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

Gautama Buddha

#9. Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

Noel Annan, Baron Annan

#10. Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.

Seth Godin

#12. So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously

Dalai Lama

#13. I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

Amanda Donohoe

#14. In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

Milarepa

#15. Sometimes I don't have enough energy to be social. I need time alone to recover from the last time I went out.

Tina J. Richardson

#16. 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

#17. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

#18. Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit.

Wayne Muller

#19. There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

#20. If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

Dalai Lama

#21. Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Napoleon Hill

#22. When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

#23. When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.

James A. Michener

#24. All that matters is me and this sweet boy who thinks I'm beautiful.

Stacey Trombley

#25. Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?

Gautama Buddha

#26. What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

Thomas Pynchon

#27. To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance to associate with them, to live with them, to share with them, words and moments of power - this is the nature of spiritual study.

Frederick Lenz