Buddhist Quotes
When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.
Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.
A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt
A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.
In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.
He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.
Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others.
Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end a friendship is to end wealth.
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.
Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.
Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.
Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.
No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.