The Buddha Quotes
To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.
You still are? There go my plans! And the suit I had bought to attend your funeral. Well, well. Anyway, do call me up when you an't.
those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty
This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.
Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else
In the nembutsu we see and feel the Buddha everywhere and in everything. Life itself becomes the unfolding of Buddha
Blossoms shower, and then they go on showering—they never stop. The blossoms that showered for Buddha are still showering. The blossoms that showered for Subhuti are still showering.
Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.
The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.
Why say then Buddha never carried gun? he didn't play piano, we do not know of him making pictures either.
To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.
Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.
The Buddha’s criteria for Wise Speech include—in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful— that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.
To each his own. A billion Buddhas. A billion streams of wisdom. All smiling in their anguish.
In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.
In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.
The next-to-last sentence that the Buddha is reported to have spoken as he was dying, before his final sentence of encouragement to his community, was “Transient are all conditioned things.
Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.
Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?
We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.