Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

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

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.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

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

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