Gautama Buddha

Quotes

• “Life in its entirety must be purified by the flame of achievement. The great Buddha, who preordained Maitreya, prescribe...”
• “If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the ...”
• “Gauṭama Buḍḍha, Sākya Muni, has ennobled the whole human race. His fame is our common inheritance. His Law is the law of...”
• “The Dharma for benefiting oneself and others is complete. If I were to live longer it would be of no further benefit. Al...”
• “The powers possessed by Buddha are not miraculous, because a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature. The supreme p...”
• “The source is likely to be either modern Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, or Calvinist clergyman Abraham Johannes Muste. T...”
• “According to the Pali Suttas, Buddha never claimed the omniscience which was attributed to him by his disciples and foll...”
• “Buddha, according to one text, "is only the elder of men, differing from them no more than as the hatched chick differs ...”
• “A maṇi-jewel; magical jewel, which manifests whatever one wishes for (Skt. maṇi, cintā-maṇi, cintāmaṇi-ratna). According...”
• “There are these four ways of answering questions. Which four? There are questions that should be answered categorically ...”
• “Throughout the entire Buddhist world the rocks on the roadsides, with the images of Maitreya, point out the approaching ...”
• “Buddha, as the source, and Maitreya, as a universal hope, will unite the austere followers of the Teaching of the South ...”
• “Thus, Mahāmati, wherever there is the evolution of living beings, let people cherish the thought of kinship with them, a...”
• “Whereas some ascetics and Brahmins remain addicted to attending such shows as dancing, singing, music, displays, recitat...”
• “The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha...”
• “The fundamental teachings of Gautama, as it is now being made plain to us by study of original sources, is clear and sim...”
• “The Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while,...”
• “If you have all sorts of idle discussions, your mind will be scattered, and even though you have left the home life, you...”
• “Eyes pure and broad like the blue lotus;mind pure, steeped in meditations;for pure deeds long accumulated, boundless in ...”
• “A man came to Him one day, as people in trouble were wont to do, and told him that he had great difficulty with his medi...”
• “India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosoph...”
• “When the real nature of things becomes clear to the meditating Bikshu, then all his doubts fade away since he has learne...”
• “In what is seen, there should be just the seen;In what is heard, there should be just the heard;In what is sensed;there ...”
• “Just as a bird, wherever it goes, flies with its wings as its only burden, so too, the bhikkhu becomes content with robe...”
• “All of you Bhikshus, you should always singlemindedly and diligently seek the way out of all the moving and unmoving dha...”
• “For natures such as Jesus of Nazareth, Mohammed and Gautama Buddha is already the capacity of its openness for a world v...”
• “At that time the Buddha, reverently surrounded by this multitude of countless hundreds and thousands of beings, expounde...”
• “Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, tha...”
• “How then can it be compassionate to gorge on other beings' blood and flesh? Monks who will not wear silks from the East,...”
• “For the first time in human history, the Buddha admonished, entreated and appealed to people not to hurt a living being,...”
• “One day, Ananda, who had been thinking deeply about things for a while, turned to the Buddha and exclaimed: "Lord, I've ...”
• “When those in this assembly who have not yet done what should be done, see the Buddha cross over to Extinction, they wil...”
• “Ch. 165, as translated in The Dharma, or The Religion of Enlightenment; An Exposition of Buddhism (1896) by Paul Carus; ...”
• “The seers of old had fully restrained selves, and were austere. Having abandoned the five strands of sensual pleasures, ...”
• “... all [meat-eating] in any form, in any manner, and in any place, is unconditionally and once for all, prohibited for ...”
• “Rahula, develop meditation that is like water. ... Just as people wash clean things and dirty things, excrement, urine, ...”
• “He (Gautama Buddha) encapsulated his teachings in a single law: suffering arises from craving; the only way to be fully ...”
• “Let your love flow outward through the universe,To its height, its depth, its broad extent,A limitless love, without hat...”
• “There are established cases when, after his discourses, a great many of the listeners deserted him and the Blessed One s...”
• “Any kind of material form whatever, whether past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, inferior or...”
• “We should never forget that Gautama was born and brought up a Hindu and lived and died a Hindu. His teaching, far-reachi...”
• “All of you Bhikshus, after my Nirvana, you should revere and honor the Pratimoksha. It is like finding a light in darkne...”
• “One with true wisdom is a secure boat for crossing over the ocean of old age, sickness, and death. He is also like a gre...”
• “Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, drew a circle with a piece of red chalk and said: "When men, even unknowingly, are to me...”
• “A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as b...”
• “This is generally reported as a French proverb, and one familiar as such in Russia as well, in many 19th and 20th centur...”
• “Do not complain and cry and pray, but open your eyes and see, for the light is all about you, and it is so wonderful, so...”
• “The history of Sākya Muni's life is the strongest bulwark of his religion. As long as the human heart is capable of bein...”
• “The Buddha was a proponent of simple, direct teaching aimed at liberation and free of theoretical frills: his intent was...”
• “Shariputra, it is the failings of living beings that prevent them from seeing the marvelous purity of the land of the Bu...”