Why Buddhism Is True Quotes

#1. Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

Shunryu Suzuki

#2. True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.

Frederick Lenz

#3. One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

Dalai Lama

#4. You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.

Frederick Lenz

#5. We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

Jack Kornfield

#6. The true tragedy in most people's lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

Earl R. Smith II

#7. We see, at least with intellect, that beyond both true and false is truth; that there is beauty beyond our present views on the beautiful and ugly; that pleasure-pain can now alike be transcended, and that some day we shall truly see that 'form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form'.

Christmas Humphreys

#8. True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#9. Health, wealth, reputation, and status are all mere ingredients of happiness. The key to true well-being is being able to manage them capably.

Kentetsu Takamori

#10. There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#11. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Sharon Salzberg

#12. I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true!

C.B. Murphy

#13. You actions are your only true belongings.

Allan Lokos

#14. On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom.

Allan Lokos