322 quotes found
“What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?”
“Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.”
“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 ...”
“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.”
“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 . . . ...”
“The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.”
“The Buddhas criteria for Wise Speech includein addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.”
“To each his own. A billion Buddhas. A billion streams of wisdom. All smiling in their anguish.”
“In Buddhas opinion, to train in staying open and curiousto train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefsis the best use of our human lives.”
“In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.”
“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.”
“Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddhas path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.”
“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.”
“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 p...”
“Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.”
“Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.”
“Thoughts of some special people are like the stairs, they take you up to the upstairs floors; some are like the wings, they take you up to the skies and some are like the light itself, they take yo...”
“One particular aspect of Siddharthas 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, the...”
“Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble.”
“I don’t teach. I just show them why to learn, what to learn, how to learn, and the ultimate purpose of learning.”
