Top 70 Quotes About Buddha Nature
#1. You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?
Shunryu Suzuki
#2. 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
#3. All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.
Gautama Buddha
#4. Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.
Dogen
#5. To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.
Shinjo Ito
#6. When your mind is wandering about elsewhere you have no chance to express yourself. But if you limit your activity to what you can do just now, in this moment, then you can express fully your true nature, which is the universal Buddha nature.
Shunryu Suzuki
#7. Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha's buddha nature.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#8. All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we are all members of the council of all beings ... And the ultimate objective truth is that all beings are perfect manifestations of Spirit or Emptiness
Ken Wilber
#9. We and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence ...
Sogyal Rinpoche
#10. Wordless is not the same of expressionless. All phenomenon of the universe, audible and inaudible, tangible and intangible, sentient and insentient, are the clear and ceaseless expression of the buddha nature.
John Daido Loori
#11. If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.
Dainin Katagiri
#12. If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with your riches. All this is the functioning of Buddha-nature. In short, Buddha-nature has the quality of infinite adaptability.
Philip Kapleau
#13. Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.
Stephen Levine
#14. Mudface is the mud in your goatface. What would you say if someone was asked the question 'Does a dog have a Buddha nature?' and said 'Woof!
Jack Kerouac
#15. The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature.
Nhat Hanh
#17. Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
Adyashanti
#18. 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
#19. People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..!
Frederick Franck
#20. Because of barriers of knowledge, barriers of state, and barriers of action, seeing your own buddha nature is like seeing color at night.
Thomas Cleary
#21. Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
#22. 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
#23. Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
Bodhidharma
#24. There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.
Frederick Lenz
#25. A haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand beckoning, a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way of returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature.
R.H. Blyth
#26. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.
Pema Chodron
#27. We really have to get going," Sam said. "Can we leave the car here and pick it up later?"
The monk said, "Does a dog have a Buddha nature?"
Does a fish have a watertight asshole?" said Coyote.
Christopher Moore
#28. To just be--to be--amidst all doings, achievings, and becomings. This is the natural state of mind, or original, most fundamental state of being. This is unadulterated Buddha-nature. This is like finding our balance.
Lama Surya Das
#29. To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.
Shunryu Suzuki
#30. The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity. (217)
Edward Conze
#31. True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature ... It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely.
Dennis Merzel
#32. Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on the strong and complicated women who surrounded Buddha and makes us re-think the nature of spiritual life.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#33. 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
#34. It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
Mike Norton
#35. Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.
Gautama Buddha
#36. Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.
Gautama Buddha
#37. Nature, God, Buddha - someone has given me this health. I can break dance still; I can run; I can play basketball. In my mind, I can do anything. As long as I have that spirit, I'm going to keep doing it.
James Hong
#38. Buddha, tends to suggest a different solution: Wanting is the cause of all human misery. Learn to want less. Accept that life is painful. Face the existential emptiness that is an essential part of our nature.
Anonymous
#39. The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions
Gautama Buddha
#40. A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose.
A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.
Sal Martinez
#41. Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.
Gautama Buddha
#42. To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
Gautama Buddha
#43. When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers.
Debasish Mridha
#44. 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
#45. When we direct our attention toward our suffering, we see our potential for happiness. We see the nature of suffering and the way out. That is why the Buddha called suffering a holy truth. When we use the word "suffering" in Buddhism, we mean the kind of suffering that can show us the way out.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#46. I love the morning sun because it enlightens my heart and teaches me how to love others with an abundance of warmth and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.
Gautama Buddha
#48. The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
Gautama Buddha
#49. 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
#50. The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained.
Sal Martinez
#51. What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.
Shinjo Ito
#52. 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
#53. A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#55. Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.
Gautama Buddha
#57. 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
#58. To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
Bodhidharma
#59. Seek happiness now within you. Don't look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile.
Sal Martinez
#60. [A less-enlightened personage once asked Ummon What is the God-nature/Buddha/Central Truth> Ummon answered him A dried shit-stick]
Dan Simmons
#61. For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.
Gautama Buddha
#62. Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.
Sakshi Chetana
#63. 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
#64. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#65. Motivated by compassion for all sentient beings, Buddha Shakyamuni observed all these problems, and he reflected on the nature of his own existence. He found that all human beings undergo suffering, and he saw that we experience this unhappiness because of our undisciplined state of mind.
Dalai Lama XIV
#66. When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.
Mary Karr
#67. When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.
Bill Porter
#68. We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.
Gautama Buddha
#69. There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.
Annie Dillard
#70. Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what is true, what actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we simply have to acknowledge or recognize what is.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
