Quotes About Buddha

If getting out was good for Buddha, it's good for you too.

According to the Buddha's teachings, the most basic condition for happiness is freedom. Here we do not mean political freedom, but freedom from the mental formations of anger, despair, jealousy, and delusion. These mental formations are described by the Buddha as poisons. As long as these poisons are still in our heart, happiness cannot be possible.

The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

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 go sit under that tree by your street.

On the one hand, the Buddha put a lot of emphasis on pursuing "The Noble Quest." Which is the right point of view: Pursuing The Noble Quest or Calling Off the Search? Both, not neither!

All we can do is to try in each moment, whatever we are doing, to practice the Buddha Way; we just keep opening the hand of thought and continuing to practice. There is no time when one can say, "I'm finished—now I have finally reached the level of an enlightened person.

When D?gen says in Sh?b?genz? Sh?ji (Life and Death) that "life and death is Buddha's Life," he means our life in samsara is nothing other than nirvana.

But Buddha was not interested in the elements comprising human beings, nor in metaphysical theories of existence. He was more concerned about how he himself existed in this moment.

When your mind is wandering about elsewhere you have no chance to express yourself. But if you limit your activity to what you can do just now, in this moment, then you can express fully your true nature, which is the universal Buddha nature.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." —Buddha

Buddha is someone with a very advanced self-concept. His self-esteem is perfect; he has gone beyond doubt; he knows, and he is confident of his knowledge; he expresses himself with conviction. When the Buddha talks of himself in the first person he does so with clarity. He has a strong sense of identity and knows very well who he is. He gives accounts of his life experiences in the first person.

As the Buddha says, "Suffering comes from both ignorance and denial." One

At the end of his life Buddha said: "I am still searching for truth." This statement could be made by countless thousands of scientists, philosophers, and religious leaders throughout all history. However, Jesus Christ made the astounding claim: I am . . . the truth" [John 14:6]. He is the embodiment of all truth. The only answer to man's search is found in Him.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

And as we awaken, our collective experience awakens. As the Buddha reportedly said, "When I woke up, the world woke up.

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

As Buddha said, "What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now." Padmasambhava went further: "If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

As the Buddha said: "I have shown you the way to liberation, now you must take it for yourself.