You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Among all the sutras I have expounded, Lotus Sutra is the first and foremost! If you are able to uphold the Lotus… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Tathagatha... is the originator of the path unarisen before, the producer of the path unproduced before, the declarer of the path… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddha is in our hearts. Buddha is in our mouths. Buddha is in our daily lives. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
