Quotes About Desire Buddha

#1. The mind always moves on and on. Whatsoever you get becomes useless. The moment you get it, it is useless. This is desire. Buddha has called it trishna: this is becoming.

Osho

#2. Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

Gautama Buddha

#3. When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

Gautama Buddha

#4. Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Edward Abbey

#5. The more you know, the more you will be able to appreciate the beauty of life and your heart will desire to learn.

Debasish Mridha

#6. To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Benjamin Hoff

#7. The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

Gautama Buddha

#8. 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

#9. If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

Gautama Buddha

#10. Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

Gautama Buddha

#11. Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

Gautama Buddha

#12. Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

Gautama Buddha

#13. Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

Gautama Buddha

#14. But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

Gautama Buddha

#15. Everyone burns, as the Buddha says, in their own way. Some burn with anger, some with lust, some with a desire for vengeance, some with fear. But inside us burn many fires, not just one. We are legion, we contain a multitude.

John Dolan

#16. In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Gautama Buddha

#17. When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

Gautama Buddha

#18. Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Gautama Buddha

#19. Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Gautama Buddha

#20. One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

Gautama Buddha

#21. Craving and desire are the cause of all unhappiness. Everything sooner or later must change, so do not become attached to anything. Instead devote ...

Gautama Buddha

#22. The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.

Gautama Buddha

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

Shunryu Suzuki

#24. A man asked Gautama Buddha, "I want happiness."
Buddha said, "First remove "I," that's Ego, then remove "want," that's Desire.
See now you are left with only "Happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#25. Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

Gautama Buddha

#26. I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.

Gautama Buddha

#27. The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

Anonymous

#28. There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

Gautama Buddha

#29. What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

Gautama Buddha

#30. Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

Gautama Buddha

#31. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

Gautama Buddha

#32. The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

Gautama Buddha

#33. When desire flows,
Pleasure arises.
Attached to happiness, seeking enjoyment,
People are subject to birth and old age.

Gautama Buddha

#34. Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

Gautama Buddha

#35. Buddha said: 'Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,' and a misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person's viewpoint.

Dale Carnegie

#36. The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire."-Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle

#37. There exist three poisons in life: desire, anger, and ignorance. One poison is the root of the other two. To attain enlightenment, you must swallow the root of your poisons, so that you die. You die many times to attain the enlightenment of Buddha.

H.S. Kim

#38. 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

#39. Live joyfully, without desire.

Gautama Buddha

#40. Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent ... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Alan Watts