Quotes About Buddhahood

#1. Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Buddha

#2. Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

Dalai Lama

#3. So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

Shunryu Suzuki

#4. If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

Gary Snyder

#5. Every suffering is a buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom. But you can only say that suffering gives rise to buddhahood. You can't say that suffering is buddhahood. Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and buddhahood the grain.

Bodhidharma

#6. 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

#7. When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood. When you're tired, lie down. The fool will laugh at you but the wise man will understand.

Linji Yixuan

#8. In your big mind, everything has the same value ... In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood

Shunryu Suzuki

#9. Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Bodhidharma

#10. Eventually, at Buddhahood, you become capable of remaining in the innate

Dalai Lama XIV

#11. Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a monkey grasping at the moon reflected in the water.

Shoitsu Omatsu

#12. There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.

Dalai Lama

#13. Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure,
and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would
attain Buddhahood.

Huineng

#14. This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.

Rajneesh

#15. The more one understands the world ... the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood. Dakpo to Shan

Eliot Pattison

#16. To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

Milarepa

#17. Be worried when the haters stop hating and the critics stop criticizing.

Behdad Sami

#18. I have all kinds of lovely ideas for games and the like." She glanced at Guthrie. "None require swordplay."
Guthrie shook his head. "Where's the fun in that?

Terry Spear

#19. Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.

Mandy Hale

#20. I didn't have the answers yet, but I wasn't terrified of them anymore.

Nicole Williams

#21. Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

William Shakespeare

#22. Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.

Tom Waits

#23. Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.

Abhijit Naskar