Buddha Quotes

409 Buddha quotes by 201 unique authors

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha. — James Patterson
I never had anyone I could call â€œMasterâ€. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my… — Fernando Pessoa
And that's how we measure out our real respect for peopleâ€”by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry… — Ted Hughes
The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition ... If Buddha is alive you can barely tolerate him. ... You cannot… — Rajneesh
The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic.… — Gary Snyder
In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect… — Shunryu Suzuki
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things lastâ€”that… — Pema Chodron
The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesnâ€™t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody… — Pema Chodron
Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and there is no help coming, you become… — Rajneesh
Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for… — Seth Grahame-Smith
The Buddhaâ€™s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only… — Pema Chodron
A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude. — Rajneesh
In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is… — Rajneesh
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it… — Aldous Huxley
At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is… — Hakuin Ekaku
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction… — Nikola Tesla
There's a famous quotation from the time the Buddha learned of the deaths of two of his greatest disciples: "It's as if the sun and… — Sharon Salzberg
When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The… — Dalai Lama
The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some… — Akkineni Nagarjuna

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