Quotes About Buddha

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now. - Buddha

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

Am I a combination of the lives of these ancestors and do I embody these lives again? Have I lived before in the past as a specific personality, and did I progress so far in that life that I am now able to seek a solution? I do not know. Buddha left the question open, and I like to assume that he himself did not know with certainty. In the meantime it is important to ensure that I do not stand at the end with empty hands.

For our more modest psychological purposes we must abandon the colourful metaphysical language of the East. What yoga aims at in this exercise is undoubtedly a psychic change in the adept. The ego is the expression of individual existence. The yogin exchanges his ego for Shiva or the Buddha; in this way he induces a shifting of the psychological centre of personality from the personal ego to the impersonal non-ego, which is now experienced as the real "Ground" of the personality.

If you want to dwell in the Buddha way And gain natural wisdom, You should always be diligent about making offerings To those who receive and embrace the Dharma Flower.

World-Honored One, now you should preach the Dharma of supreme awakening for our sake. Once we have heard it, we will study and practice it together. World-Honored One, we are determined to gain the insight of a tathagata. What is deep in our hearts the Buddha must already know.

The Buddha preached this sutra for eight thousand eons without resting. When he had finished preaching it, he entered a quiet room and meditated for eighty-four thousand eons.

Monks and nuns full of arrogance, Proud laymen, and laywomen of little faith: In the assembly of the four groups, such people Were five thousand in number. Not seeing their own errors, Failing to observe the precepts And carefully defending their faults, These people of little wisdom have already left. Those dregs of the assembly left Because of the Buddha's dignity and virtue. Such people of little merit and virtue Are incapable of receiving the Dharma.

Wherever such a teacher lives or stays, Walks, sits, or lies down, Or teaches even a verse, There a stupa should be erected. It should be wonderfully And beautifully adorned. And offerings of many kinds Should be made to it. When children of the Buddha live in such a place, It means that the Buddha accepts them And always lives among them, Whether walking, sitting, or lying down.

In continuous, Unending suffering, They are firmly rooted in the five desires Like an ox chasing its own tail. Blinded by greed and desire, They are blind and can see nothing. Seeking neither the Buddha With his great power Nor the Dharma, Which can bring an end to suffering. With deeply entrenched wrong views, They try to use suffering to get rid of suffering.

Now, having no more doubts, I dwell at peace in the Buddha way. As a skillful means, I will be a servant To protect and embrace the buddhas' teachings.

Then Maitreya Bodhisattva thought: "Now the World-Honored One has displayed a marvelous sign. But what is the cause or reason for this auspicious sign? Now that the Buddha, the World-Honored One, has entered into concentration, whom can I ask about such inconceivable and unprecedented wonders? And who will be able to answer?

Son palabras de Buda: «El cambio debe ser voluntario, no impuesto». —¿Qué significa eso? —Todos podemos cambiar, pero nadie puede obligarnos a hacerlo. El cambio suele ocurrir cuando enfrentamos una verdad incuestionable, algo que nos obliga a revisar nuestras creencias —dijo él.

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

take Buddha. The central idea [is] sacrifice.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

D?gen Zenji said, "To look for the Buddha dharma outside of yourself is like putting a devil on top of yourself." Master Rinzai said, "Place no head above your own." That is, to look outside of ourselves for true peace and satisfaction is hopeless.

Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.

It was a music of the spirit, seeking peace, not emotional release, expressing the hunger of the soul rather than the heart. A way of sequencing notes so ancient it might be music's mother lode, its Fertile Crescent. It wouldn't have grated, I felt, on the ears of ancient Greeks or Egyptians or Mesopotamians or Sumerians—or even on the august auditory equipment of the Buddha or Lao-tzu.

Learning to live with desire may be the single most important act for an alcoholic. Our relationship to pleasure and self-gratification was distorted, and until it becomes relatively balanced, we will suffer, just as the Buddha said.

Trusting the Buddha, good and bad, I bid farewell To the departing year.

equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha

Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.

Can't you just see all those enlightened monkey men sitting around a roaring woodfire around their Buddha saying nothing and knowing everything?