Inspirational quotes Quote by Vimalakurti

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“While you are conscious of being a Buddha, you are not truly a Buddha, because you are ensnared by the idea. You are not…

— Katsuki Sekida

“The Lotus opens. Movement from earth, through water, from fire to air. Out and in beyond life and death now, beyond inner and outer,…

— R.D. Laing

“The Buddha likened humans to the lotus flowers. Out of the deluded mud of human existence, filled with greed, hatred, and delusion, in a…

— Noah Levine

It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that all physical…

— Frederick Lenz

“Every day, I am thinking: 'How can I lead all living beings to enter the unsurpassed way so as to quickly acquire the body…

— Buddha

“For me, Buddhism is like a living organism. If it is to flourish outside self-enclosed ghettos of believers, it will have to meet the…

— Stephen Batchelor

“The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when…

— Edward Conze

“Everyone already has a Buddha nature inside of them, but it is almost impossible to see and feel as our awareness is clouded and…

— Ian Tuhovsky

Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness."

— Dalai Lama

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

— Bodhidharma

“The basic Buddhist teaching of impermanence (Pali: anicca) suggests that even the most powerful spiritual experiences come and go like clouds in the sky.…

— Jonathan Landaw