1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

I don't know', 'Maybe', 'Perhaps' - If youhave stopped using these phrases, you are imprisoned by your beliefs. You don't have beliefs. Beliefs have you.

We can create some information aboutBuffalo, milk and its nutritional values. Wecan exchange that information with each other for money, appreciation etc.A monk living alone in jungle doesn't knowwords such as Buffalo, milk or nutrition. Hejust wonders, "Green grass enters into this big black thing and a white liquid comes out of it. How!" He can't exchange this wonder with anyone but it transports him to eternity.

If you have seen everything in life, you want to say to people, "Cut the drama and come to the point."But for people, drama is the point. A point is useless to them if it doesn't provide drama.

Past troubles those who divide it into two: Waste that must be disposed off and trophies that must be showcased.Things of the past are raw material forthe future. If they are dirty, wash themwith acceptance. If they are too bright,dip them into grace.

The light in meonly wants toreach the darkness in you.

The ship of spirituality or religion is not going anywhere. Eventually you must jump out of it into nothingness.Only an individual can jump, not a group. Groups are nothing but people huddled together because of fear of nothingness.

All things are cursed. If you engage with them, they multiply. If you just let them be, they fade into nothingness.

By-passing all scriptures and all that any teacher has to say, we shall, while respecting every finger that points to the moon, be mindful only of the moon. This habit will make it easier to understand the truth that every statement is wrong, whenever made by any man, for it was made in duality and is therefore one-sided, incomplete, and in the final synthesis its opposite is just as true!

Maybe I was just too young to know how to hold all these balls in the air at once without wanting to cry.