Buddha Quotes
409 Buddha quotes by 201 unique authors
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Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.
— Ray Wylie Hubbard
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Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.
— Edward Vilga
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The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.
— Jay Michaelson
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To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner…
— Kobayashi Issa
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The blessings of stupas are such that they benefit all beings, regardless of their connection and motivation. If one participates in a stupa's construction and…
— Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
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Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
— Dalai Lama
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The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
— Joseph Campbell
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I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's…
— Deepak Chopra
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If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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I couldn't have asked for a better kid. She's our own little Buddha baby so far. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop to…
— Ana Ortiz
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Whether it's a fully enlightened Christ or Buddha, or just a more aware Martin Luther King, Kennedy or Gandhi, what did they do with them…
— Frederick Lenz
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Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man,…
— Gautama Buddha
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Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.
— Frederick Lenz
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And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being…
— Joseph Campbell
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The Buddha taught that suffering is the extra pain in the mind that happens when we feel an anguished imperative to have things be different…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things…
— Dogen
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Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.
— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
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It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of our beloved deity…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days.
— Todd Barry
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Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are.…
— Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
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The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the change away from…
— Bodo Balsys
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha…
— Bodhidharma
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
— Bodhidharma
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
— Bodhidharma
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. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind…
— Bodhidharma
Who Wrote These Buddha Quotes
201 authors contributed a total of 409 Buddha Quotes, led by these top contributors: