All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

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

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

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

— Frederick Lenz

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, 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

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

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

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

“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

It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a…

— Nhat Hanh

“The foundational Vajrakilaya is the sun shining in the sky behind the clouds. The path Vajrakilaya is the removal of the clouds from the…

— Gyatrul Rinpoche

Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

— Bodhidharma

“In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts.”

— Lijia Zhang

I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone enters that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti