Buddha nature Quote by Dalai Lama

Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

— Joan Halifax

...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they…

— Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

— John Welwood

Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“LEARNING HOW to be kind to ourselves is important. When we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and…

— Pema Chödrön

Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

— Dalai Lama

“It does not matter whether one is a Buddhist like me, or a Christian like the Archbishop, or any other religion, or no religion…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“As long as we're in a state of confusion, overwhelmed by the three conflicting emotions, trapped in cyclic existence, we're not happy and we…

— Ngagpa Yeshe Dorje

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life…

— Richard Gere

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

— Matthieu Ricard

“The various worlds were produced by evolutionary actions. Thus, the Buddha taught that all worlds and living beings were created by collective and personal…

— Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye