Buddhism Quotes

Attachment leads to suffering.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

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

The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.

The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.

The kundalini energy rests in potential at the base of the spine. It is possible to take that energy and allow it to move, to unleash it, from the base of the spine up to the third eye.

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

Learn from the purity of nature.

If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble.

You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.

Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

Love where there is no reason to love

On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever.

For some reason, there is a purity to the Swiss Alps - a certain energy - that is very reminiscent of my snowboarding experiences in the Himalayas.

Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.

You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.

The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.

If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.

Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.

The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.

Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.

If you want to help sentient beings, you have to get your hands dirty.

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

Take short walks in the park down a happy trail.

Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.