Lao Tzu Quotes

The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.

If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

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

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.

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

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

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.

What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

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

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

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.

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.

The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.

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

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