The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that…

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a…

— Paul Di Filippo

All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

— Gautama Buddha

From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.

— Hakuin Ekaku

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find…

— Joseph Campbell

“Motivated by compassion for all sentient beings, Buddha Shakyamuni observed all these problems, and he reflected on the nature of his own existence. He…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Therefore, to get Enlightened we have to believe that all beings are Buddha-natured—that is, absolutely good-natured in the sense that transcends the duality of…

— Kaiten Nukariya

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being…

— Mary Karr

“Then Maitreya Bodhisattva thought: “Now the World-Honored One has displayed a marvelous sign. But what is the cause or reason for this auspicious sign?…

— Gene Reeves

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self,…

— Nhat Hanh

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

— Josh McDowell

The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is…

— Denis O'Hare

The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

The birds fly in the sky but they don't leave any footmarks. That's what Buddha says, that the man who is awakened lives in…

— Anonymous

Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,…

— Aldous Huxley