Buddha Quotes

409 quotes by 201 authors

I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying… — Stephen Batchelor
That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and from those that… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument. — Hugh Jackman
I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role… — Tia Carrere
I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant. — Peggy Lee
If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with… — Philip Kapleau
The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is… — Ayya Khema
We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not thawed. I fear my soul has died.… — Julie Otsuka
Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh. — Amrita Pritam
Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight? — Edward Abbey
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… — Erich Fromm
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs,… — Will Durant
The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain. — Swami Vivekananda
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its… — Paul Auster
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas. — Daisaku Ikeda
Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex, when a young… — Rajneesh
Look within, thou art the Buddha. — Gautama Buddha
I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be saved Preach to… — Gautama Buddha
All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas. — Gautama Buddha

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