Buddhism Quotes - Page 5

• All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake."

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Blessed, Saint

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• Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Islands

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• The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Character, Thinking

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• The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Buddhist, Inspiration

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• A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Flower

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• So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Teacher, Buddhist

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• We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

  Gautama Buddha

  Death, Procrastination, Waiting

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• Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Buddhist, Believe, Reality

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• In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Buddhist, Truth, Life Changing

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• He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Life Changing, Earth Life

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• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Teacher, Religious

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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• I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

  Herbie Hancock

  Might, Jazz, Feels

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• Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

  Bell Hooks

  Spiritual, Teacher, Hands

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• I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Support

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• All know the way, but few actually walk it.

  Bodhidharma

  Inspire, Way, Action

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• Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

  Alan Watts

  Law, Ideas, Moral

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• Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

  Richard Gere

  Impact, Enormous, Tibetan

  "Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. 1999.

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• Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

  Thurston Moore

  Religious, Philosophy, Exotic

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• I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

  Duncan Sheik

  Trying, Explicit, Implicit

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