1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

You can forget about yourself and still know you will always do everything you are supposed to do.

If you don’t have something nice to say, say something nice anyway.

So, the moon shines on Kannon, and Kannon shines on the world. Standing amidst suffering, she brings light into the darkness, helping us walk the Buddhist path.

We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?

නූගත් අවිචාරශීලී මිනිසුන් කුපිත කිරීමට මේ බොරු සිංහල බෞද්ධ හැඟීම තරම් තවත් කදිම නිමිත්තක් නොමැති බව ඔහු දනී. ජාතියකට, ආගමකට හෝ කුලයකට එරෙහිව අවි අමෝරා ගන්නට බුද්ධ ධර්මයේ කොතනකවත් සටහන් වී නොතිබීම, එහිදී ඔහුට අබැටක තරම්වත් වැදගත් නැත.

After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy. This is why Buddhism can so easily turn into the very opposite of universal compassion: the advocacy of a ruthless military attitude, which is what the fate of Zen Buddhism aptly demonstrates.

These eyes has seen diverse misfortunes follow from diverse desires

Life takes from us only lives we were given by it.

It is our natural and moral duty as consumers of other living things to someday die.