1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

Don't create war between your good (Rajasic) and bad (Tamasic) qualities. Accept both so that the divine quality (Sattvic) can start flowing from inside you.

This world can be a Leela (divine play) or Maya (giant trap) depending on whether you are wearing an identity or stuck in an ego.

Wherever the mind has a lot of attachment, we will experience intense suffering, intense grief, intense difficulty right there. The place we experience the most problems is the place we have the most attraction, longing and concern. Please try to resolve this. Now, while you still have life and breath, keep on looking at it and reading it until you are able to ‘translate’ it and solve the problem.

46. “All anyone has the power to do is to develop their faith and trust. It is all anyone can do to understand the Grand Plan. There is life and there is karma. There are so many levels of existence. Different people live on different levels. Everything is very individualized. Those who do not believe may deny all of this because it’s too complicated.” ~ Kuan Yin

Beings who yearn for the DharmaAnd generate effort for the sake of the Dharma are rare.Anyone who makes the wheel of Dharma turnWill attain supreme wisdom.– BuddhaThe Question of Kṣemaṅkara

Through Bodhichitta you will realize that there is no self. Self-grasping will be destroyed, for when you think of others you do not think about yourself. Ultimately 'self' and 'other' are but thoughts. When we understand that we are not separate from others, we begin to fathom the preciousness of compassion, of Bodhichitta.

But do not ask me where I am going,As I travel in this limitless world,Where every step I take is my home.– Dogen Zenji

A certain recluse monk once remarked, ‘I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that stillhaunts me is the beauty of the sky.

A certain recluse monk once remarked, ‘I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky.