Dogen Zenji Quotes

There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no designing thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Do not seek anything else.

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

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

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

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

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

The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

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

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

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

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

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

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

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

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

In the Buddhist learning process, we say three stages. The first is hearing, the second is contemplation, and the third is meditation.

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.