1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

Let us live in joy, in love amongst those who hate! Among men who hate, let us live in love.

All the joy the world containsHas come through wishing happiness for others.All the misery the world containsHas come through wanting pleasure for oneself. (8.129)

A loving, compassionate person heals others simply by existing. Wherever they are, compassionate people are healing, because they do everything they can to help others with their body, speech, and mind. Merely being near a compassionate person heals us because it brings us peace and happiness. Simply seeing the face of a kind, warmhearted person makes us feel happy. (p. 51)

It can be useful to have goals. Purpose. But we should never believe that our happiness depends on achieving them. The two are quite separate.

9.Should bodhichitta come to birthIn those who suffer, chained in prisons of samsāra,In that instant they are called the children of the Blissful One,Revered by all the world, by gods and humankind.

It comes down to practice, and practice, after all, is conduct in keeping with Right Views. Of course, Right Views are not merely opinions, not even Skākyamuni’s opinions, but are views that accord with this realization: we are all in this together and we aren’t here very long. Let’s take care of one another while we can.

You cannot walk this whole path alone, and if you try, you will fail. So, you begin to turn your mind toward the Buddha and all those who inherited the teachings of the Buddha, all the great masters of the past.

The dualistic mind cannot apprehend the nondual union of form and emptiness. Only by giving rise to the nondual mind can nondual experience unfold. No matter how much we think about nonduality, we will not experience it unless we walk a path that leads us to suspend conceptuality altogether.

We can help people a great deal by thinking about them positively and developing metta towards them. And sometimes we can help people just by keeping out of their way – or rather by not getting in their way. Sometimes people need space, and we help them most by giving it to them, or at least not taking it from them.