The Buddha Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Gautama Buddha

#4. 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

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Debasish Mridha

#7. 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

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Gautama Buddha

#10. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Debasish Mridha

#14. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Gautama Buddha

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Be the witness of your thoughts.

Gautama Buddha

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Takuan Soho

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Bodhidharma

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

Gautama Buddha

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

Annie Besant

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Gary Gauthier

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#46. 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

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

Gautama Buddha

#48. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

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

Gautama Buddha

#56. 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

#57. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Debasish Mridha

#61. 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

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

Gautama Buddha

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

Gautama Buddha

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

Kobayashi Issa

#71. Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

Gautama Buddha

#72. One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

Gautama Buddha

#73. Suffering, if it does not diminish love,
will transport us to the furthest shore.

Gautama Buddha

#74. You yourself must earnestly practise, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path

Gautama Buddha

#75. The darkest night is ignorance.

Gautama Buddha

#76. To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

#77. What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Buddha

#78. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#79. Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Gautama Buddha

#80. No need for Jesus and the Lord Buddha to fight

Carol Hollinger

#81. Greater still is the truth of our connectedness.

Gautama Buddha

#82. Success isn't the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.

Gautama Buddha

#83. Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.

Gautama Buddha

#84. You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

Gautama Buddha

#85. A poem often begins in the midst of wonderful wandering thoughts that are eager to open wings to fly in the beautiful blue sky of imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#86. In the morning, smile like the morning sun and give the best gift of a smile filled with the warmth of love.

Debasish Mridha

#87. Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality.

Debasish Mridha

#88. The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.

Gautama Buddha

#89. Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

Gautama Buddha

#90. Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#91. The greatest prayer is patience.

Gautama Buddha

#92. As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.

Gautama Buddha

#93. You must make the effort yourself. The Masters only point the way.

Gautama Buddha

#94. Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Gautama Buddha

#95. Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Buddha

#96. The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.

Henepola Gunaratana

#97. I shoot with my pen with the bullets of love.

Debasish Mridha

#98. In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

Gautama Buddha

#99. All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them.

Dalai Lama

#100. We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.

Pema Chodron