Buddha Quotes and Buddhist Sayings:
The Path To Enlightenment
The word "Buddha" means "Awakened one" or "Enlightened One" in Sanskrit and Pali.
These Buddha quotes and Buddhist sayings are enlightening quotations that have a very deep meaning; they are perfect to use as a meditation focus and to reflect upon the ways in how you live your own life.
Siddha-rtha Gautama (approximate dates: 563 BCE to 483 BCE), was the spiritual teacher who founded Buddhism.
He is the key figure that is generally seen by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha. Most of his teachings had to do with ethics and correct understanding of how life should be lived.
Buddha Quotes: A Wealth of Knowledge To Learn From
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
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.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.
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."
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Buddhist Sayings
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
~Atisha
All know the Way, but few actually walk it. If you don't find a teacher soon, you'll live this life in vain. It's true, you have the buddha-nature. But without the help of a teacher you'll never know it. Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help. If, though, by the conjunction of conditions, someone understands what the Buddha meant, that person doesn't need a teacher. Such a person has a natural awareness superior to anything taught. But unless you're so blessed, study hard, and by means of instruction you'll understand.
~Bodhidharma
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
~Sylvia Boorstein
If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart, I could really see you.
~David Brandon (Zen in the Art of Helping)
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