1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.

The dissonant irony here is that the affluence that gives the Western Buddhist their privilege, and gave them the opportunity to engage Buddhism in the first place, is part of what the Buddha meant by samsara, the world of attachment and consequent suffering. In a sense, Buddhist practice in the West is dependant upon continued delusion, especially those delusion that cause us to identify with class-appropriate roles.

The body is not the Bodhi tree. The mind, no mirror bright. Since nothing is there, on what should dust alight?

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

He goesUnto NIRVÂNA. He is one with Life,Yet lives not. He is blest, ceasing to be.OM, MANI PADME, OM! the Dewprop slipsInto the shining sea!

I TAKE MY REFUGE IN THY NAME AND THEE!I TAKE MY REFUGE IN THY LAW OF GOOD!I TAKE MY REFUGE IN THY ORDER! OM!THE DEW IS ON THE LOTUS! - RISE, GREAT SUN!AND LIFT MY LEAF AND MIX ME WITH THE WAVEOM MANI PADME HUM, THE SUNRISE COMES!THE DEWPROP SLIPS INTO THE SHINING SEA!

Clover is incapable of not nurturing. It can’t do anything but nurture. Shakyamuni is capable of not nurturing. With a poisonous thought, he is a poisonous person. With an enlightened thought, he is an enlightened person. With his great realization, he is unlikely to slip back into poisonous ways, but he could, for he is human.

When we’re engaged in pure activity, we’re a presence, an awareness. But that’s all we are. And that doesn’t feel like anything. People feel that the so-called enlightened state is flooded with emotional and loving feelings. But true love or compassion is simply to be nonseparate from the object. Essentially, it’s a flow of activity in which we do not exist as a being separate from our activity.