“When you do good, let it be good in line with nature. Don't latch onto the thought that you're good. If you… — Suman Jyoty Bhante Copy Share Image
“Then Maitreya Bodhisattva thought: “Now the World-Honored One has displayed a marvelous sign. But what is the cause or reason for this… — Gene Reeves Copy Share Image
I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
“A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we… — David Brazier Copy Share Image
Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
First become a Zorba, a flower of this earth, and earn the capacity through it to become a Buddha - the flower… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“Patanjali, Buddha, Moses and Jesus did not go to workshops or seminars or even churches. They went directly to nature: sat under… — Dolores Lachapelle Copy Share Image
“The Sage A person of wisdom should be truthful, without arrogance, without deceit, not slanderous and not hateful. The wise person should… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you try to become a buddha, one thing is certain - you will not be able to become yourself. One thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“The future Buddha was once born as a rabbit, who vowed that he would give his own flesh to any beggar who… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
“The believer of Buddha is thankful even for death itself, the which is the sole means of conquering death. If he be… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The Buddha isn’t a god or deity to be worshipped. He was a rebel and an overthrower, the destroyer of ignorance, the… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Your curly hair is seduction of infidelity while your moon-face is piety, Glimpse it from the infidel's eye you'll then see bot… — Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi Copy Share Image
The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own… — Dogen Copy Share Image
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha” means that when you see that you’re grasping or clinging to anything, whether conventionally… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
I think 'Jesus' is the most offensive word in anyone's life. When we mention Jesus, He is the only one who says… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
“The perfume of incense reminds us of the pervading influence of virtue, the lamp reminds us of light of knowledge and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Which one is the right way?" "Huh? You're asking me that ? How should I know?" "Mortals call you Buddha." "That is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror… — Edward Conze Copy Share Image
“Live in this world without being from this world... look at all saints who lived in this earth.. look how meekness they… — Lucas Gialluisi Copy Share Image
Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“Where Buddha and Tao Meet: Stop seeking pleasures, Satisfy your natural wants; Break clean from ambitions, Escape from the urge to improve,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The Buddha encouraged his followers to never accept what was put to them as truth by anyone else without scrutiny or skepticism.… — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The Buddha would not have liked people to call themselves Buddhist. To him that would have been a fundamental error because there… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just… — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Copy Share Image
“Be like a tree standing planted by a dead river bed, until you transform into the confidence of your own stream of… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
