1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper.

That you have just caught success after chasing it for many years does not mean that death will stop chasing you for at least a few seconds.

We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.

So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.

Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?

When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.