Buddhism Quote by Jack Kornfield Download Open image ““The word “buddha” means one who is awake.”” — Jack Kornfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buddhism
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 Copy Share Image
“Buddha is sometimes called the ‘Awakened One’ because he has awakened from the ‘sleep’ of ignorance.” — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“Buddha is not someone you pray to, or try to get something from. Nor is a buddha someone you bow down to. A buddha… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A man met the Buddha after the Buddha became enlightened. The man was awed by his remarkable radiance. "What are you?" the man asked.… — Linda Leaming Copy Share Image
The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Being awake is an acceptance of the way the world flows, allowing it to be as it is instead of trying to change it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation and the… — Tulku Urgyen Copy Share Image
“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and collected way,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
My mom and my aunties are really devout Christians. My mom married a Muslim when I was 12, so I got teachings from both… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The extraction of discrete parts of Chöd teachings from their broader philosophical contexts is symptomatic of how Chöd has been incorporated into and transmitted… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
