Matthieu Ricard Quotes About Buddhism

Quotes about: Buddhism

• Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Children, Lying

• Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Envy, Suffering

• When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Memories, Buddhism, Simplicity

• The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Lying, Buddhism, Roots

• True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mean, Buddhism, Ego

• Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Suffering

• Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mean, Buddhism, Suffering

• Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Mean, Buddhism

• By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Self, Long

• Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Believe, Mean

• Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Creativity, Buddhism, Names

• What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Suffering, Tasks

• That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Mind, Suffering

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