Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

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

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

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

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

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

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

Your nature is the Buddha.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.