Buddhism Quote by Nalini M. Nadkarni

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to…

— Annie Dillard

“I think this is a bodhi tree,” I said, “just like Buddha sat under! It’s so exciting. I’m feeling sort of enlightened just standing…

— Christopher Moore

“Enlightenment was not just Gautama Buddha's, but you too, individually, must find this new perspective of life, this new point of view in your…

— Gyomay M Kubose

“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

“Siddhartha Gautama Buddha realized, balance is the key to enlightenment.”

— Lee Vickers

“Mind is pure and bright in its essence. It is always free from passions and mean desires, just as the sun is always bright,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Here, monks, a monk goes to the forest, to the foot of a tree, or to an empty place, sits down, folds his legs…

— John Yates

“the Buddha, aged seventy-two, thought it was high time to preach his long-cherished doctrine that all sentient beings can attain to Supreme Enlightenment;”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of…

— Hermann Hesse

“Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree and Jesus wrestling with demons in the desert are symbolic of the same drama of the soul that…

— Deepak Chopra

“In Buddhist thought, enlightenment is understood not as the presence of something but as the absence of something: the permanent extinction in our lives…

— Simon Parke

The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon…

— Dogen