Buddha Quotes

409 Buddha quotes by 201 unique authors

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the… — Bodhidharma
To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting… — Bodhidharma
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's… — Bodhidharma
A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind… — Bodhidharma
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind. — Bodhidharma
According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the… — Dalai Lama
You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or… — Frederick Lenz
The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and… — Frederick Lenz
Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to… — Frederick Lenz
It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the… — Frederick Lenz
Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid. — Rajneesh
Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those… — Dogen
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and… — Dogen
In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I… — Francesco Clemente
If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for… — Frederick Lenz
The Buddha said, 'Nothing can survive without food.' This is a very simple and very deep truth. Love and hate are both living phenomena. If… — Nhat Hanh
Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime, it is criminal.… — Rajneesh
The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of humanity uses it;… — Rajneesh
I would say that Jesus Christ and his followers were a cult, Buddha and his followers were a cult and Mohammed and his followers were… — Frederick Lenz
Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer… — Frederick Lenz
There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature. — Frederick Lenz
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became… — Frederick Lenz
Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings. — Frederick Lenz
Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures] that should ever… — Hsing Yun
Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so… — Edward Bach

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