Quotes About The Dhamma

#1. If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.

Ajahn Chah

#2. The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.

Ajahn Chah

#3. Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#4. The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.

Gautama Buddha

#5. There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.

Gautama Buddha

#6. The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.

Ajahn Chah

#7. As electricity is made up of positive and negative current - so is human life a system of attraction and repulsion. - Turn off the current if you want quiet. - Yes, but where is the switch?

Nanamoli Thera

#8. Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

Gautama Buddha

#9. If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

Ajahn Chah

#10. On the mantelpiece, the photograph of a chimpanzee and a statuette of the Buddha. This proximity, more accidental than intentional, makes me wonder over and over where my place might be between these two extrems, man's pre and transfiguration.

Cioran

#11. Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Nothing short of the U.S. government could save them.

Michael Lewis

#13. I falter in the doorway, swept with memories of my reckless behavior last time I saw him. I sipped wine from a bottle. I kissed him. And as my pulse flutters with excitement, I know I would do it again, given the chance.

Meghan Masterson

#14. The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#15. Don't Live in the Darkness of Fear, Abandon Fear and Live in Joy!

Darwun St. James

#16. The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

Suman Jyoty Bhante

#17. 89 Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.

Anonymous

#18. The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

S. N. Goenka

#19. Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.

Anagarika Dharmapala

#20. Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails that one embrace this world in all its contingency and specificity, with all its ambiguity and flaws.

Stephen Batchelor

#21. To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

Ajahn Chah

#22. Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

Barack Obama

#23. Astounded - and indifferent - for he was a man who, in effect, had no 'day before'.

Oliver Sacks

#24. Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#25. It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.

Nanamoli Thera