1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

We must find the way of love rather than that of being loved.

Concepts are not real things; a conceptualized world is a dead world. Living actualities lose their life when put into concepts.

Ngày nọ có một người Phật tử lật đật dựng xe đạp để vào chùa nghe giảng siêu lý (Abhidhamma) đã không biết rằng chiếc xe đạp của anh ta đè gãy một cành hoa bên tường chùa! Anh ta tưởng có cái gì siêu lý ngoài việc dựng chiếc xe đạp sao cho đàng hoàng, trầm tĩnh, sao cho đừng hại tới ai.

The reality of nature, the reality of life is oneness. But we humans have such a strong egotistic nature. We are the ones who create dualism; we are the ones who talk about two sides: front and back, right and wrong, me and you. As soon as life is dichotomized, tension is created.

Oneness and individuality coexist. There is no question about the importance and uniqueness of each individual life. However, difference is no difference. The very difference is equality, is one.

Everything changes; nothing is permanent.

Only when I see myself truly is Gautama Buddha is present in me.

Much of what animated me in those days I now recognize as the romantic yearnings of an idealistic, alienated, and aimless young man. I endowed these strange, exotic people, about whom I knew little, with all the virtues that my own culture seemed to lack.

Who am I? I am not nothing but this moment in the flow of life. This flow of life is not in my control; it is the life of the universe itself. The life of the universe flows in me and I just flow with this life and that is myself.