1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.

Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.

You have not yet reaped the sweetest fruits of meditation, if you still do not meditate only to meditate.

Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us — is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.

Consciousness is a phenomenon with which life does things such as hear and see itself.

Nothing whatsoever should be clung to as ‘I’ or ‘mine.' (Sabbe dhamma nalam abhinivesaya.)

The more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be.

Settling your mind in its natural state entails releasing all grasping, grasping onto the future, and the past, grasping onto cogitations about the present. Letting your awareness rest in its own place, naturally luminous and still.

Anyone who engages in Buddhist meditation is subscribing to the bizarre doctrine that they do not actually exist, that they have no soul, that they are not a Self. They are agreeing with the extraordinary proposition that Nature - inexplicably - deals in creating pointless illusions.