Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

I am a simple Buddhist monk.

Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

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.

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

I'm a Buddhist.

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

The light of Asia

I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me.

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

I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.

Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.