1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

Human beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.

If it's easy to get into something but nearly impossible to get out, it's called a trap. But traps of Maya are not that obvious. It's difficult to get into them. Hence they are more attractive to us. In fact, we compete with each other to get into them.

Having problems is not nearly as tormenting as being had by problems.

Nearly all samurai practice Zen - it is the Way of Enlightenment." "Possibly the light of Zen is so strong that it has blinded me to its virtue." Yoshitoki smiled. "It is very good discipline for the mind, as the martial arts are for the body." Kenmotsu looked very smug as he said this. "I do Zazen twice a week." "I think it will do no-one any harm, though personally I find it more pleasant to think than to empty my mind of thought.

Why are you keeping your fists clenched? Open them. Let what comes come. Let what goes go. You deserve much more than what your fists can hold.

There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

Buddhism spreads by people converting out of their own wish for peace and right action. But power condenses around those willing to use force.