Buddha Quotes
409 quotes by 201 authors
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When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught…
— Hermann Hesse
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The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied: Cease to do…
— Arthur E. Powell
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...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is…
— Barbara G. Walker
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If we do not control our minds with our Buddha nature, do not practice seriously, are not honest to ourselves and do not examine our…
— Ching Hai
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Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have…
— Stephen Levine
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I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment of death. He…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.
— Dalai Lama
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Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality…
— Paul Fleischman
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It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every…
— Corey Taylor
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
— William Butler Yeats
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Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer…
— Ashley Judd
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As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on both the sides…
— Rajneesh
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That is why he appears to us who are deeply life-hypnotized, obsessed about being alive in any way, as life-negating. To us, just to be…
— Rajneesh
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When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded.…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.
— Dawn French
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So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence,…
— Stephen Batchelor
Who Wrote These Buddha Quotes
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