Gautama Buddha Quotes About Liberation

• Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Ocean, Teaching

• Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Mind, Suffering

• My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience...
  My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship.
  My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river.
  Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Philosophy, Teaching, Mean

• Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Work Out, Independence

• Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Silence, Trying, Looks

• Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Light, Attachment

• 'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.'

  Gautama Buddha

  Practice, Ethics, Morality

• All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passing Away, Diligence, Strive

• This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Clinging, Liberation

  Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Kittens”, p.145, Mango Media Inc.

• Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Shining, Mind

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