Awake Quote by Jack Kornfield

The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha.…

— Nhat Hanh

The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person,…

— Eckhart Tolle

“If I say "A lotus for you, a Buddha to be," it means, "I see clearly the Buddha nature in you.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha” means that when you see that you’re grasping or clinging to anything, whether conventionally it’s called…

— Pema Chödrön

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

— Bodhidharma

In general, 'Buddha' means 'Awakened One', someone who has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and sees things as they really are. A Buddha…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of…

— Jack Kerouac

Isn't overwhelming when life turns you down? it means that your awake and alive to be tested

— Cath Chatto

The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

— Peter Matthiessen

It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.

— Jack Kornfield

“Then Maitreya Bodhisattva thought: “Now the World-Honored One has displayed a marvelous sign. But what is the cause or reason for this auspicious sign?…

— Gene Reeves