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Your nature is the Buddha. -- Bodhidharma
All babies are Buddha babies. -- Joseph Campbell
Once a Buddha, always a Buddha. -- Roger Zelazny
I am moonlighting for the Buddha. -- John Burdett
Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha. -- James Patterson
What we think, we become. - Buddha -- What we think, we become.
Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right -- Ravi Zacharias
Don't quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha. -- Eckhart Tolle
Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara. -- Swami Vivekananda
People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..! -- Frederick Franck
We need a Jesus or a Buddha or. .. -- Glenn Beck
The Buddha always emphased the important of good friends. -- Tenzin Palmo
Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha. -- Pema Chodron
Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves. -- Dogen
The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two. -- Takuan Soho
It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said. -- Marty Rubin
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. -- Bodhidharma
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist. -- Jack Kornfield
If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. -- Linji Yixuan
equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha -- Jack Kerouac
A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself. -- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help -- Miyamoto Musashi
Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days. -- Todd Barry
The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them. -- Dalai Lama
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha. -- Tara Brach
One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas. -- Nhat Hanh
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind. -- Bodhidharma
I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant. -- Peggy Lee
All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes. -- Kobayashi Issa
A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha. -- Shunryu Suzuki
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. -- Phil Jackson
Regard everyone you meet as the Buddha and you will know 10,000 Buddhas. -- Gampopa
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. -- Bodhidharma
Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil. -- Dogen
A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart -- Soke Behzad Ahmadi
The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things. -- Sengcan
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. -- Jack Kornfield
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind. -- Bodhidharma
Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist. -- Ray Wylie Hubbard
Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha! -- Frederick Franck
If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them. -- Dainin Katagiri
The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society. -- Vinessa Shaw
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. -- Bodhidharma
Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe. -- Dalai Lama
Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight? -- Edward Abbey
To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment. -- Tenzin Palmo
The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening"?often rude awakening. -- Jay Michaelson
Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares. -- Bodhidharma
The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it. -- Huston Smith
If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil. -- Dogen
If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond. -- Natalie Goldberg
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha. -- Bodhidharma
Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it? -- Adyashanti
A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude. -- Rajneesh
I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you. -- John Burdett
When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me. -- Frank Hall
Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha. -- Nhat Hanh
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. -- Bodhidharma
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside. -- Bodhidharma
Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit? -- Frederick Franck
Whenever anyone, Buddhist or not, sees a Temple or an image of Buddha they receive blessings. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that. -- Dalai Lama
There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way. -- Dogen
Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am! -- Swami Vivekananda
Jesus said "love," "forgive," have "compassion" and "don't judge." Buddha said "observe," "be silent," and "serve." -- Bryan Kest
The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain. -- Swami Vivekananda
Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment. -- Reb Anderson
Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha. -- Joan Halifax
Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh. -- Amrita Pritam
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much. -- Francis Harold Cook
People always snap and think they're Jesus. How come no one ever snaps and thinks they're Buddha? -- Bill Hicks
There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride. -- Tenzin Palmo
There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. -- Dogen
If youâ??re truly present in this moment, then you are a Buddha. At least for this moment! -- Leonard Jacobson
If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma. -- Anagarika Dharmapala
Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal. -- S. N. Goenka
Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life. -- Henepola Gunaratana
We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted? -- Rohan Perera
Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?" -- Garry Shandling
The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful. -- Sylvia Boorstein
When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects. -- Ziauddin Yousafzai
The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha. -- Tenzin Palmo
In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door. -- Swami Vivekananda
The essence of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) is about identifying the cause of our suffering & alleviating it. -- Allan Lokos
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss. -- Robert Thurman
The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta. -- Annie Besant
The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity. -- Tenzin Palmo
From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas. -- Hakuin Ekaku
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha -- Bodhidharma
Who do you think was smarter, Jesus or Buddha? I mean, just in terms of not letting themselves get crucified. -- Anthony Jeselnik
As Dr. Chiang puts it, â??while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls. -- Carlo M. Cipolla
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha. -- Bodhidharma
The words of the Buddha offer this truth: â?¼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed. -- Jack Kornfield
The Zen expression â??Kill the Buddha!? means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself. -- Peter Matthiessen
Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself. -- Brad Warner
If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you. -- Nhat Hanh
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process. -- William Butler Yeats
He could've had Jesus, Buddha, he could have had every God in his corner, it wouldn't have helped him against me. -- David Haye
India is the land of Buddha and Gandhi. Equal respect for all religions must be in the DNA of every Indian. -- Narendra Modi
You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away? -- Shunryu Suzuki
If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument. -- Hugh Jackman
Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent. -- Fumiko Enchi
The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. -- Joseph Campbell
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. -- Andrew Lang

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