Walpola Rahula Quotes

As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.

It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

The name one gives is inessential.What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.

Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ).