1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

Suppose you're about to start playing a game. Somebody comes and says, "You're going to play a game." Then if you play, you're proving them right. If you don't play, you are proving them wrong.It no longer remains your game. It becomes all about them. This is how thoughts tie you down. This is how Maya binds the soul.

All processes in nature create waste but nature takes care of the waste too. The thought process is man-made. The waste it creates is like plastic.Religions all over the world have turned human mind into a factory of creating pious thoughts. The waste it creates is immense and dirty. People try to burn it with the fire of hatred, riots, wars and so on... True religion is about discovering the zone of no thought.

There is difference between knowing something and knowing "about" something. To know tea, you have to drink it. To know "about" it, you can google information and write essays or books on it.Tragedy is that most people just want to know "about" God. Those who dare to jump from the boat of knowledge and dive into nothingness are very very few.

All emotions and feelings are tasty if they are drank and digested. They turn nasty because we keep chewing them with the teeth of reasoning and thought.

Your body is like a kite. The space around you is the turbulent sky through which it is fluttering It is going where the wind of thoughts takes it. Leave this kite here. Don’t fight with the wind either.Just descend deep inside you and find your inner ground. Get hold of the string of awareness. It’s a magical string. You just have to watch the kite “and it will get out of the turbulent sky.

The root of our problems is within our mind. It is our unskillful ways of thinking. We have to recognize the right ways of thinking, which bring happiness, and the wrong ways of thinking, which bring suffering. With one way of thinking, we have problems in our life; with another way of thinking, we don't. In other words, happiness and suffering come from our own mind. Our mind creates our life.

To materialize your wish, the universe has to change the things around you. Your body is also one of those things. Drop the idea of ownership over your body and consider it as just another part of the universe. Otherwise either your wish will never materialize or it will materialize in a distorted way.

Nothingness is the source of everything. But if you want to take an apple out of it, so many other things will come out along with apple: The farmer who produced it, the farm, the seed shop, farmer’s family and ancestors... a whole new universe will come out with apple.

Only your conscious being is eternally yours. Everything else is bonus. The loss or gain is happening from the bonus.