Buddhism Quotes

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.

Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

People who are humble don't talk too much; they listen.

The abuse of power takes happiness away.

While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.

The point is to be free, not to be crazy.

Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet.

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.

Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power.

Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.

When you see someone's aura, it is an outer reflection of the subtle physical body. It is about the same shape as the physical body, although it can become thousands of things.