Buddha Quotes

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

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

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

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

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

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

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

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

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

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

Your nature is the Buddha.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

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

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.