“It is often said that the Buddha’s teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“What the Buddha himself considers to be truly wondrous are not the miracles accompanying his conception and birth, but his mindfulness and… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature. If we in the pampered West, having grown… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“If you don't have the treasure of Noble truth, you are still poor even if you have loads of money and wealth.… — Suman Jyoty Bhante Copy Share Image
A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy… — Kobayashi Issa Copy Share Image
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The Blessed One is the mother of all sentient beings, and gives them all the milk of mercy."[FN#158] Some people named Him… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“13. A Buddha In Tokyo in th Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in… — Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps Copy Share Image
As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
“I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The next-to-last sentence that the Buddha is reported to have spoken as he was dying, before his final sentence of encouragement to… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“The Buddha likened humans to the lotus flowers. Out of the deluded mud of human existence, filled with greed, hatred, and delusion,… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“You associate with living beings by frequenting their migrations. Yet your mind is liberated from all migrations. Just as the lotus, born… — Vimalakurti Copy Share Image
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The idea of different countries and nationalities was purely an invention of the human mind handed down from one generation to the… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
“The Buddha promised redemption after thousands of deaths and rebirths, after millennia of suffering. Epicurus promised the end of all striving with… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
“the question, "What and who is Buddha?" Yuen Wu (En-go) replied: "Hold your tongue: the mouth is the gate of evils!" while… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Fat Charlie went back to his hotel room, the colour of underwater, where his lime sat, like a small green Buddha, on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
That is why he appears to us who are deeply life-hypnotized, obsessed about being alive in any way, as life-negating. To us,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will… — Buddha Copy Share Image
Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other:… — Tilden Edwards Copy Share Image
“As long as we practice with a vow to help others, we are the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, and we become the… — Dosung Yoo Copy Share Image
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“The whole world is the same single community; each and everyone learns there's nothing to do. This is the very place to… — Layman Pang Copy Share Image
There's a famous quotation from the time the Buddha learned of the deaths of two of his greatest disciples: "It's as if… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, "Listen Godzilla, you don't have to do all… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Let us, without breaking, empty ourselves of the fruits of wrong sowing and wrong reaping. Yes, let us become the pliant ones.… — Pearls Of Wisdom Copy Share Image
Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Buddha is the crown jewel of the Indian nation which accepts all ways of worship of all religions. This quality of Hinduism… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
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