1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

Mystery is the unknown in which we live. It is our nature. Mystification is the exploitation of mystery.

Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

...theism is an addiction. We're all addicted to hope - hope that the doubt and mystery will go away.

The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them."The message is always to examine and see for yourself. When you see for yourself what is true-and that's really the only way that you can genuinely know anything-then embrace it. Until then, just suspend judgment and criticism.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.

Most people will leave you with the impression that the main function of our emotions is to cloud our judgement.

The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose;Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart;If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease;