1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

When you are attached to things and people, you are the only one to take care of them. When you get detached, your identity expands and higher powers manifest through you to take care of them.

Imagine that your nails and hair start growing so fast that you can see them coming out of your body in real-time. The matter is coming and going out of every inch of your body. Like water flows through a bank of river Ganga, five elements are flowing in and out of your body. Why do you identify yourself with the flowing matter? You are the ancient banks.

Your mind is like a bell hanging outside a temple. It reacts to everything and gives sounds like “That is wrong” “That is right” “I like it” “I disagree.”Let it ring. Let it react. Leave it where it is and go inside the temple. Detach from the mind to enter your inner temple.

If a good thing is going out of your life despite all your efforts, don’t cling to it otherwise you will miss the better things coming your way.If a bad thing is staying in your life despite all your efforts, let it stay for some more time. It is probably stopping a worse thing from coming in and taking its place.

The knowledge that the world has given you is nothing but a set of robotic commands. It has turned you into robot: What is it? Milk. What to do with it? Bring it from the shop, boil it and drink.What is it? Tree. What to do with it? Just ignore it. It is there to keep your oxygen levels normal.And so on. It has made you into robot. It has given you an illusion of freewill and choice.

You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.

If you play your role well in whatever script life has given you in the present moment, you will get signed for a better script in the future.

If two deer meet in a jungle, they silently eat the grass or play. I am this... You did this... How dare you say that... All these arguments take place only when one of them is not a deer. And these arguments will reach no conclusion.They should either silently accept each other or silently walk away. Silence is the most natural thing in both the cases.

A king often saw a white pigeon visiting his garden. It would fly away whenever he tried to approach it. He won its trust after great efforts and brought it to his palace.Soon after everything started going wrong in his life. He never doubted the pigeon for this. In fact he would cry before it and say, "You are the only good thing remaining in my life." How could he doubt someone whose trust he had won with great efforts?