The Buddha Quotes

The Buddha Quote of the day

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

True love is born from understanding.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.

When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

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

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

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.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.

In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood

I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..!

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?

There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

Be your own lamp, seek no other refuge but yourself, Let truth be your light." ~Buddha

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.

The statue of the Laughing Buddha act as a good friend. Whenever we are off the track, his smiling face can bring us back to the present moment, to a positive mood.

Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

The bad things, don't do them.The good things, try to do them.Try to purify, subdue your own mind.That is the teaching of all buddhas.

Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.

Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.