Quotes About Buddha

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.

Homage to the Buddha: Such truly is he: free from impurities, having destroyed all mental defilements, fully enlightened by his own efforts, perfect in theory and in practice, having reached the final goal, knowing the entire universe, incomparable trainer of men, teacher of gods and humans, the Buddha, the Exalted One.

human being who has transcended his intellect, the discriminatory and logical dimensions of his life, is a Buddha.

Jesus also offers an alternative wisdom. As a wisdom teacher, he is more like Lao Tzu or the Buddha than he is like a teacher of conventional wisdom.39 The basis for my judgment is twofold. The first is the sheer weight of wisdom teaching attributed to Jesus. Most of his teaching is in the form of memorable short sayings (aphorisms) and provocative short stories (parables), both classic wisdom forms.

I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.

In the foyer an array of mailboxes lined one wall, and sliding heaps of flyers and takeout menus covered the rickety bench beneath them. Kate walked past several offices, but only the Christians for Buddha door stood open.

To help others is the way of Buddha and the teaching of Christianity - in this point the two religions are the same. What matters is weather or not you walk the path of truth. That is not God. It is like a butterfly caught in a spider's web. At first it is certainly a butterfly, but the next day only the externals, the wings and the trunk, are those of a butterfly; it has lost it's true reality and has become a skeleton.

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.

The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

The Dhammapada, a collection of sayings of the Buddha, tells us: "What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday…. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart…. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

When it is said that a buddha shows the path in accordance with the respective karmic fortune of the disciples, this means that he adapts his teaching to their respective intelligence and mental capacities.

The Omniscient One who Directly Sees Thatness" is an epithet of the Buddha. A buddha is called "omniscient" since he possesses the unhindered knowledge of all aspects of the knowable. The direct vision of thatness (Tib. de kho na nyid) is synonymous with the vision of reality as it is, with the direct realization of emptiness, of the absolute truth, of the dharmadhatu or the sugatagarbha.

Through a Buddha, who is but illusion, how does merit spring?" As if the Buddha were existing truly. "But," you ask, "if beings are like illusions, How, when dying, can they take rebirth?

The Buddha has no intention of answering the question about higher states of consciousness yet. He first advocates practicing moral conduct as a foundation for spiritual development.

The teaching of the Buddha is called the Dhamma. He did not teach Buddhism, any more than Jesus taught Christianity.

The Buddha's teaching of the Dharma was called "Good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end

I'll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my bestseller, 'The Plant Paradox' had just come out. He was wild about the book, and apoligized that he had never heard of me before the book. He asked what I had been doing for so many years. I replied that I was merely following the Buddha's advice to 'chop wood and carry water.'

My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.

Love is the saving grace. It's the buddha in you standing up and saying, "Even though it's dark, I have this jewel.

This cold winter night, that old wooden-head buddha would make a nice fire

Mnich do Mariny: - Wszystko b?dzie si? toczy?, bo i tak si? toczy. Przypomnij sobie histori? Buddy - otrzyma? o?wiecenie, ale dopiero wtedy, kiedy ca?kowicie si? podda?. Czasami robisz, co tylko mo?esz, ?eby osi?gn?? cel, ale nic z tego nie wychodzi, bo kosmos ma wobec ciebie inne plany.

Even though it is almost impossible to attribute with certainty any specific mathematical achievements either to Pythagoras himself or to his followers, there is no question that they have been responsible for a mingling of mathematics, philosophy of life, and religion unparalleled in history. In this respect it is perhaps interesting to note the historical coincidence that Pythagoras was a contemporary of Buddha and Confucius.