Buddha Quotes

• For the Buddha, the key to liberation is mental purity and correct understanding, and for this reason he rejects the notion that we can gain salvation by leaning on any external authority.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Authority
  • Salvation
  • Liberation

• 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

• I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing -​ and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said -​ the basic things he laid down about love and goodness -​ and not what people say he said.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe
  • Jesus
  • Buddha

• You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Eyes
  • Achieve
  • Buddha

• I've always tried to learn from the greats: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Buddha, Jesus... it's just that there's this tremendous pressure to correct all the things they got wrong.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Jesus
  • Pressure
  • Bogart

• Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Buddha
  • Interpretation

• When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

  

  Bill Porter
  • Nature
  • Blind
  • Buddha

• The Buddha teaches that feeling is an inseparable concomitant of consciousness, since every act of knowing is coloured by some affective tone.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Consciousness
  • Teaches
  • Buddha

• The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

  

  Albert Low
  • Human
  • Buddha
  • Sickness

• 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

• When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Truth
  • Christ
  • Prophet

• Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.

  

  Edward Vilga
  • Sex
  • Lose
  • Invest

• The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Philosophy
  • Buddha
  • Communist

• Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.

  

  Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
  • Brain
  • Head
  • Buddha

• Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Free
  • Buddha
  • Barriers

• All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Parents
  • Free
  • Buddha

• For the Buddha and Early Buddhism, this is above all the defining crisis at the heart of the human condition: we are bound to a chain of rebirths, and bound to it by nothing other than our own ignorance and craving. The pointless wandering on in saṃsāra occurs against a cosmic background of inconceivably vast dimensions. The period of time that it takes for a world system to evolve, reach its phase of maximum expansion, contract, and then disintegrate is called a kappa (Skt: kalpa), an eon.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Ignorance
  • Expansion
  • Human Condition

• After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Vision
  • Memory
  • Meditate

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