Buddha Quotes

• The NBA Schedule was made up by one man, Eddie Gottlieb, who had owned the Philadelphia Warriors. Eddie had a Buddha-like body and a crinkly smile, and because he had also been an owner in baseball's old Negro leagues, he was known as the Mogul.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Up
  • Baseball
  • Smile

• When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.

  

  Mary Karr
  • People
  • Nature
  • Period

• In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wisdom

• The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Enemy
  • Lies
  • Compassion

• Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, "Listen Godzilla, you don't have to do all this. Just chill out a little bit and everything will be fine".

  

  Brad Warner
  • Buddha
  • Godzilla
  • Chill Out

• From the very beginning all beings are Buddha.

  

  Hakuin Ekaku
  • Beginning
  • Buddha

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

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Nature
  • Buddha

• It is said that “there is a self,” but “non-self” too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is “neither self nor non-self.” Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha.

  

  Nagarjun
  • Real
  • Buddha

• When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The Buddha himself taught differently according to the place, the occasion and the situation of those who were listening to him.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Style
  • Taken
  • Listening

• Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Truth
  • Suffering
  • Salvation

• Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • May
  • Reality
  • Essence

• 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
  • Reality
  • Single
  • Identity

• The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the change away from blood-letting and killing, and not surreptitiously fostering it because of their lack of will to change their habits or mode of thinking concerning the animal kingdom.

  

  Bodo Balsys
  • Responsibility
  • Humanity
  • Killing

• I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.

  

  Nguyen Cao Ky
  • America
  • Blessed
  • Buddha

• I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • War
  • Peace
  • Wisdom

• If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Mind
  • Buddha

• Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Universe
  • Existence

• The Buddha said, ‘Gripped by fear, men go to the sacred mountains and sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.’ I am not afraid of death, my lady. I need no god to comfort me in my fear.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • God
  • Death
  • Fear

• The tool the Buddha holds out to free the mind from desire is understanding. Real renunciation is not a matter of compelling ourselves to give up things still inwardly cherished, but of changing our perspective on them so that they no longer bind us. When we understand the nature of desire, when we investigate it closely with keen attention, desire falls away by itself, without need for struggle.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Attention
  • Desire
  • Struggle

• The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Way
  • Task
  • Buddha

• One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted. "No, I am not a teacher." "Then what are you?" asked the student exasperated. "I am awake," Buddha replied.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Teacher
  • Students
  • Messiah

• The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.

  

  Geoffrey Gorer
  • Brotherhood
  • Institutions
  • Founders

• Buddha was a responsible guy and believed in his monks being responsible, their responsibility would no longer be to their practice or to the sangha, but to their child because that's the only honest way to do it. You can't have it both ways. So anytime a monk would have sex, there was always that possibility and it was a very big deal.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Responsibility
  • Sex
  • Child

• He could've had Jesus, Buddha, he could have had every God in his corner, it wouldn't have helped him against me.

  

  David Haye
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Corner

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