Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

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 has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

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.

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

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

I'm a Buddhist.

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.

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

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

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

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.