Buddha Quotes

In the beauty of countless danseuse in my palace, I saw an endless suffering in the form of distorted and diseased figures as the absolute certainty towards which they were heading even as insects unwittingly consign themselves to the blazing flame.

~ Ajit Kumar Jha

Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.

~ Sylvia Boorstein

The Buddha said that there are three times that a person should consider the consequences of any action: before, during, and after. “One should reflect thus,” he said. “‘Is what I am about to do . . .’ or ‘Is what I am currently doing . . .’ or ‘Is what I just did . . . for my own well-being and for the benefit of all others?

~ Sylvia Boorstein

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

~ Jack Kornfield

The Buddha’s criteria for Wise Speech include—in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful— that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.

~ Sylvia Boorstein

To each his own. A billion Buddhas. A billion streams of wisdom. All smiling in their anguish.

~ Aporva Kala

In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.

~ Pema Chödrön

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

The next-to-last sentence that the Buddha is reported to have spoken as he was dying, before his final sentence of encouragement to his community, was “Transient are all conditioned things.

~ Sylvia Boorstein

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

~ Jack Kornfield

The bad things, don't do them.The good things, try to do them.Try to purify, subdue your own mind.That is the teaching of all buddhas.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The Buddha referred to married people as “householders.” He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder: Be nice to your spouse, be honest, be faithful, give alms to the poor, buy some insurance against fire and flood . . . I’m dead serious: The Buddha literally advised married couples to buy property insurance.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.

~ Hermann Hesse

Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm’s length from multiplicity.

~ Daniel Tammet

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

~ Manil Suri

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

~ Phil Jackson

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

~ Charles Lindbergh