Quotes About Buddha

#1. Hate is only conquered by love.

Gautama Buddha

#2. Every day and every night, I dance with Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammad & all personal Gods: Krishna, Shiva & Buddha. You are welcome too !

Santosh Kalwar

#3. As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

Dalai Lama

#4. He didn't lead anyone on, or make any promises. Instead he conveyed a sense of calm and equanimity, like a man who had banished from his life all superfluous sentiment, all longings and all patience for the nonessential. He was like Yoda, Buddha and the Gladiator all rolled into one.

Michael Robotham

#5. After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.

Jack Kornfield

#7. Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#8. Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Buddha

#9. A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

Shunryu Suzuki

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

Debasish Mridha

#11. I have no other religion than kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

Terence McKenna

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

Gautama Buddha

#14. If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don't hurt anyone in anyway or form.

Debasish Mridha

#15. One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.

Gautama Buddha

#16. The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

Robert M. Pirsig

#17. A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

Gautama Buddha

#19. Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.

Gautama Buddha

#20. Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

Gautama Buddha

#21. Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right.

Debasish Mridha

#22. The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.

Debasish Mridha

#23. I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

Denis O'Hare

#24. The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

Rajneesh

#25. I love deeply and admire the beauties of life and its expression in many different art forms. I am an aesthetic philosopher.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

Gautama Buddha

#27. The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

Gautama Buddha

#28. A smile is a reflection of your dancing heart and your joyful soul.

Debasish Mridha

#29. No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.

Gautama Buddha

#30. Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.

Gautama Buddha

#31. That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.

Gautama Buddha

#32. The truth should not be contingent, but it should be coherent.

Debasish Mridha

#33. Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.

Gautama Buddha

#34. He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Buddha

#35. Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

Gautama Buddha

#36. When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#37. Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).

Gautama Buddha

#38. 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

#39. Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Gautama Buddha

#40. You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

Shunryu Suzuki

#41. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.'- Buddha

Elias Axmar

#42. Be the witness of your thoughts.

Gautama Buddha

#43. Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

Gautama Buddha

#44. It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

Gautama Buddha

#45. The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.

Takuan Soho

#46. The seeker is that which is being sought.

Gautama Buddha

#47. The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

Bodhidharma

#48. Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#49. After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

Huston Smith

#50. To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.

William Kingdon Clifford

#51. Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

Gautama Buddha

#52. The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

Annie Besant

#53. The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

Gautama Buddha

#54. In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

Gautama Buddha

#55. There are more treasures hiding in between your ears than can be hidden in the whole earth.

Debasish Mridha

#56. Behind Ise Shrine, unseen, hidden by the fence, Buddha sees nirvana.

Gary Gauthier

#57. 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

#58. In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.

Gautama Buddha

#59. The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

Pema Chodron

#60. People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..!

Frederick Franck

#61. Wealth is the byproduct of thoughts. To be wealthy, think of wealth.

Debasish Mridha

#62. Buddha is a Buddha, a Krishna is a Krishna, and you are you. And you are not in any way less than anybody else. Respect yourself, respect your own inner voice and follow it.

Osho

#63. 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

#64. Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

Gautama Buddha

#65. If life is a business, then you are blessed with an abundance of capital which is your unconditional love.

Debasish Mridha

#66. It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if one sees everything differently. It is not that at all. Suffering isn't going to go away; the one who suffers is going to go away.

Ayya Khema

#67. I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.

Gautama Buddha

#68. We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis ...

Gautama Buddha

#69. If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

Gautama Buddha

#70. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.

Debasish Mridha

#71. If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

Gautama Buddha

#72. Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#73. 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

#74. Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.

Gautama Buddha

#75. Don't look for a reason to be kind. Be a little more loving and kind.

Debasish Mridha

#76. In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

Gautama Buddha

#77. The Buddha achieved enlightenment as he sat under the spreading limbs of the Bodhi tree, breathing in and out in silence, as does a tree.

Nalini M. Nadkarni

#78. At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

Hakuin Ekaku

#79. In this world,
hate never dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. - The Buddha

Gautama Buddha

#80. Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering ... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#81. Right perspective is no perspective or all perspectives.

Gautama Buddha

#82. Even if you walk through a beautiful garden, you will not be able to find the beauty if your heart is not ready to bloom.

Debasish Mridha

#83. If you are truly in love with this world and your life, then you will lose the sense of angst.

Debasish Mridha

#84. Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.

Rajneesh

#85. The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

Gautama Buddha

#86. Change is inevitable and the ultimate way of life. Change creates new opportunities for new beauties in life.

Debasish Mridha

#87. In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

Gautama Buddha

#88. Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

Gautama Buddha

#89. To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Gautama Buddha

#90. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Gautama Buddha

#91. 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

#92. Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.

Gautama Buddha

#93. By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.

Gautama Buddha

#94. There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love.

Debasish Mridha

#95. Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

Gautama Buddha

#96. 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

#97. If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed
were to bump into each other along the road
and go have a cup of tea or whatever,
I think we all know
they would treat one another far different and far better
than a lot of their followers would.

Brian D. McLaren

#98. We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.

Anandmurti Gurumaa

#99. A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#100. In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.

Gautama Buddha