Buddha Quotes - Page 7

13. A Buddha In Tokyo in th Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha's precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o'clock in the morning. The other teacher, Tanzan, a professor of philosophy at the Imperial University, never observed the precepts. When he felt like eating he ate, and when he felt like sleeping in the daytime he slept. One da Unsho visited Tanzan, who was drinking wine at the time, not even a drop of which is supposed to touch the tongue of a Buddhist. "Hello, brother," Tanzan greeted him. "Won't you have a drink?" "I never drink!" exclaimed Unsho solemnly. "One who never drinks is not even human," said Tanzan. "Do you mean to call me inhuman just because I do not indulge in intoxicating liquids!" exclaimed Unsho in anger. "Then if I am not human, wht am I?" "A Buddha," answered Tanzan.

I don’t believe in solipsism, but I also believe that if I am not existing—nothing exists for me.

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.

Namaste means that whatever is precious and beautiful in me honors whatever is precious and beautiful in you.

Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind.

To open a closed door, use kindness as your key.

Be courageous! First win the fear of failure to win the game of life.

The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible.

ALWAYS BE HAPPY IS NOT IMPORTANT , WHAT IMPORTANT IS TO FIGHT THE STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES US HAPPY OR UNHAPPY !!

To find the truth, try to follow the Socratic method. Just don’t forget to follow your intuition and imagination.

Love is the best treatment for depression. To get better, you have to give it away as much as you can, as fast as you can, and as often as you can.

Most people will be a great success if they focus on doing what is important and not what is urgent or pleasant.

Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.

There are more treasures hiding in between your ears than can be hidden in the whole earth.

You may wonder what you can do for humanity. Humanity desperately needs peace. Be an advocate of peace and teach others to think about peace.

When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful.

Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.

A smile is a reflection of your dancing heart and your joyful soul.

The secret of success is being persistent and having a definite purpose.

Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone.

The Amida Buddha delivers those who recognize their own weakness and cowardice... Those who admit their own faults and above all, those who believe... A wholehearted trust in Amida Buddha gives peace of mind to those who've known despair. Even the most vicious and evil of sinners will attain salvation and be reborn in paradise... Even a piece of shit like me!

Love everybody and tell the truth.

To find it, give the love that you seek.

Buddha gives me the strength to bring my words to life and he gives me the strength to share my love of life.

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

I count my blessings as follows:1) I'm alive.2) Beauty is in the world all around me.3) I share my love with everyone and not just a select few.4) I give thanks to whoever made and created us no matter which religion it my be.5) I never stop smiling, laughing and being happy.6) I try and help those who need it the most.7) I try not to hate, injure or kill anything or anyone.8) I share what I have even if I don't have a much.9) I write and share my thoughts so that it may bring comfort to other people.10) I never ask for anything for me from anyone.11) I follow the other 10 blessings.

In life, every step you take is an adventure. Never fear to venture and never forget to enjoy.

To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.

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 poor, buy some insurance against fire and flood . . . I’m dead serious: The Buddha literally advised married couples to buy property insurance.

Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.

If you cannot find and appreciate the beauty of your own thoughts, how can others appreciate you?

Love one another." If we took those simple words to heart, we'd already be the Buddhas Jesus wanted us to be.

To be a success, plant the seeds of dreams. Then take care of those plants.

If you are truly in love with this world and your life, then you will lose the sense of angst.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a doctor who offers a course of therapeutic treatment to heal one’s ills. To embark on such a therapy is not designed to bring one any closer to ‘the Truth’ but to enable one’s life to flourish here and now, hopefully leaving a legacy that will continue to have beneficial repercussions after one’s death. (154)

Try your best, before any rest. Life gets its beauty from the best.

Be kind. It will reveal your true inner beauty.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

I may not be able to leave behind wealth or splendor, but I will try to leave behind examples and stories of my love and kindness to inspire you to be kind and spread the message of kindness.

I like Aristotle, but I don’t agree with his cosmological argument about god.

Only your thoughts can bring you happiness.

The biggest and grandest adventure in life is life itself.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

Kindness can be short, sweet, transient, and random, but its effects echo forever.

There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love.

We are so busy with our everyday lives that we often forget how to live.

Stories are masks of God.That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them.