Buddha Quotes

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.

The more you feel like you need to fix something, the more you need to not.

If you can come to this nowness without sex, sex, by and by will become useless, it will disappear. It will not be a desire then. If you want to move in it you can move into it as a fun, but not as a desire. Then there is no obsession in it because you are not dependent on it.

I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.