Quotes About Truth

We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it. We are the light at the tip of the candle. It is really hot, but it has the power of shining and illuminating. If we practice mindfulness, we will know how to look deeply into the nature of war and, with our insight, wake people up so that together we can avoid repeating the same horrors again and again.

If we are caught by the obstacle of knowledge, even if truth comes knocking at our door, we will refuse to let it in.

If at some point in your life you adopt an idea or a perception as the absolute truth, you close the door of your mind. This is the end of seeking the truth. And not only do you no longer seek the truth, but even if the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you refuse to open it. Attachment to views, attachment to ideas, attachment to perceptions are the biggest obstacle to the truth.

Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist.

My dear friend, I may be the victim of wrong perceptions, and what I write here may not reflect the truth. However, this is my experience of the situation. This is what I really feel in my heart. If there is anything wrong in what I write, let us sit down and look into it together

Much of our suffering comes from wrong perceptions. To remove that hurt, we have to remove our wrong perception.

Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.

A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

The truth is already in you. You only need to open yourself — body, mind, and heart — so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment. If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work.

Buddhist teachings are meant to awaken our true self, not merely to add to our storehouse of knowledge. From

Attachment to views, attachment to ideas, attachment to perceptions are the biggest obstacle to the truth

If one's perceptions were accurate, reality revealed itself with ease; but if one's perceptions were erroneous, reality was veiled. People were caught in endless suffering because of their erroneous perceptions: they believed that which is impermanent is permanent, that which is without self contains self, that which has no birth and death has birth and death, and they divided that which is inseparable into parts.

Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth.

The truth is the truth, whether or not it is accepted by the majority. Therefore, I tell you children, it takes great courage to stand up for and protect what is right.

Nirvana isn't merchandise for sale. Any religion can sell a paradise, a pure land, or nirv??a. But is nirv??a a product that the Buddha and ancestral teachers want to sell us? Is it a promised land or paradise up in the sky, which people try to sell us saying: "If you follow our religion, if you become a member of our congregation, then after you die you will have nirv??a or the Kingdom of Heaven"? We can see clearly that it is not.

Life is real; it's not a dream when mindfulness is there.

Your concept or perception of reality is not reality. When you are caught in your perceptions and ideas, you lose reality.

No view can ever be the truth. It is just from one point; that is why it is called a "point of view." If we go to another point, we will see things differently and realize that our first view was not entirely right. Buddhism is not a collection of views. It is a practice to help us eliminate wrong views. The quality of our views can always be improved. From the viewpoint of ultimate reality, Right View is the absence of all views.

We can only accept teachings that we have put into practice with our own awakened understanding and that we can see with our own experience to be true.

In this very moment all of us are dying. Some of us are dying more slowly and some of us more quickly. If we can be alive now, it is because we're dying at every moment. We might think that someone else is dying and we're not. But we shouldn't be fooled by appearances.

When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result ... learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to receive others' viewpoints.

When you get free from views and words, reality reveals itself to you and that is Nirvana.

1. Tell the truth. Don't lie or turn the truth upside down. 2. Don't exaggerate. 3. Be consistent. This means no double-talk: speaking about something in one way to one person and in an opposite way to another for selfish or manipulative reasons. 4. Use peaceful language. Don't use insulting or violent words, cruel speech, verbal abuse, or condemnation.

When Jesus said, I am the way, He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way.