Top 62 True Buddha Quotes
#1. Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
Bodhidharma
#2. Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
Gautama Buddha
#3. Everyone who has changed the course of human history, every last one was able to do so only because he was ready for his destiny. That's true of Moses and the Buddha, Napoleon and Bismarck. The wave that carries us, the star that guides us - we cannot choose it.
Hermann Hesse
#4. True love not only attracts hearts, but it also shines like the sun.
Debasish Mridha
#5. If a person does not harm any living being ... and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner
Gautama Buddha
#6. Love is the true God - not the God of theologians, but the God of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, the God of the Sufis.
Osho
#7. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
Gautama Buddha
#8. Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.
Gautama Buddha
#9. If your vision encourages and enables others to hope more, see more, act more, love more, and live more then you are a true pathfinder.
Debasish Mridha
#10. True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
Gautama Buddha
#11. Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.
Gautama Buddha
#12. If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.
Gautama Buddha
#13. If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don't say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.
Gautama Buddha
#14. 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
#15. Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different; in essense they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.
Shunryu Suzuki
#16. If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.
Alice Bag
#17. Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.
Gautama Buddha
#18. Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.
Dermot Davis
#19. True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.
Gautama Buddha
#21. The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.
Gautama Buddha
#22. One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.
Gautama Buddha
#23. I like a little chaos. I think that's really true for my inner Buddha. I think I like a little nutsy. Maybe I can't take total peace.
Meredith Vieira
#24. Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.
Gautama Buddha
#25. Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
Gautama Buddha
#27. Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.
Gautama Buddha
#28. If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.
Gautama Buddha
#29. In separateness lies the world's greatest misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.
Gautama Buddha
#30. [Forster] quotes approvingly from this discussion, from The Magic Flute [by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson]
"Lord Buddha was your gospel true?"
"True and False."
"What was true in it?"
"Selflessness and Love."
"What false?"
"Flight from Life.
Zadie Smith
#31. Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.
Gautama Buddha
#32. 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
#33. Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.
Gautama Buddha
#34. 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
#35. Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.
Gautama Buddha
#36. The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Gautama Buddha
#37. Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt.
Gautama Buddha
#38. When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
Gautama Buddha
#39. True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.
Debasish Mridha
#40. A Buddha is a person who has no more business to do and isn't looking for anything. In doing nothing, in simply stopping, we can live freely and be true to ourselves, and our liberation will contribute to the liberation of all beings.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#41. The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.
Dalai Lama
#42. The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
Gautama Buddha
#43. I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.
Gautama Buddha
#44. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha
#45. Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path, through diligence.
Gautama Buddha
#46. Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.
Amrita Pritam
#47. True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible.
Debasish Mridha
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. To find yourself again and again, get lost in true love.
Debasish Mridha
#51. The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart ... Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.
Sharon Salzberg
#52. Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
Gautama Buddha
#53. Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
Gautama Buddha
#54. Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.
Gautama Buddha
#55. The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
Gautama Buddha
#56. In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Gautama Buddha
#57. You are always on the verge of an adventure so dare to find it with true joy.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.
Nhat Hanh
#59. 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
#60. Be a true romantic. Always ruminate about the true beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#61. When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.
Gautama Buddha
#62. If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
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