Samsara Quotes

• Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

  Amit Ray

  World, Within You

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• Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Teaching, Night

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• Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sea, Names, Single Life

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• We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

  Pema Chodron

  Fall, Essence, Safety

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

  Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche

  Karma, Ocean, Meditation

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• Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Mind, Lost

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• The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Ignorance, Seeing

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• Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Real, Men

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1922.

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• Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pain, Heart, Sadness

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• The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Self, Movement

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• To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need
  the two wings of emptiness and compassion.
  From now on, let us use these two wings
  to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Compassion, Sky, Wings

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• Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Different, Consciousness

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Ego, Mind

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• Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Spiritual, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Saint, Sinner

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

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• By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Mind, Unhappy

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• The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Painful, Said

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• Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Work Out, Trying, Fooled

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• Yes, times are not good, but when were times good? This is samsara.

  Tenzin Palmo

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• According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Attachment, Self

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.39, Penguin Books India

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• Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Ocean, Restless Mind, Names

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• Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.

  Roger Zelazny

  Dream, Light, Burning

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Eye, Perfect, Suffering

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.80, Tharpa Publications UK

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• The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.

  Ken Wilber

  Engagement, Sage, Midst

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.279, Shambhala Publications

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• Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front of it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds appear, it’s not particularly disappointed either. There is a deep sense of contentment. You chuckle from inside as you see the facade of samsara and nirvana; the View will keep you constantly amused, with a little inner smile bubbling away all the time.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Sky, Clouds, Views

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