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Buddhas don't practice nonsense. -- Bodhidharma
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals. -- Bodhidharma
Where there are humans, You'll find flies,And Buddhas. -- Kobayashi Issa
When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas! -- Gautama Buddha
The world is full of Buddhas but they're sleeping. -- Mooji
You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way. -- Gautama Buddha
All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas. -- Gautama Buddha
You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way. -- Gautama Buddha
One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas. -- Nhat Hanh
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. -- Bodhidharma
Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings. -- Nhat Hanh
Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings. -- Nhat Hanh
Regard everyone you meet as the Buddha and you will know 10,000 Buddhas. -- Gampopa
Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha! -- Frederick Franck
In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite. -- Milarepa
There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future. -- Gautama Buddha
You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes. -- Gautama Buddha
The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task. -- Gautama Buddha
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense. -- Bodhidharma
Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha. -- Joan Halifax
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. -- Dogen
From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas. -- Hakuin Ekaku
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas. -- Gautama Buddha
Love one another." If we took those simple words to heart, we'd already be the Buddhas Jesus wanted us to be. -- Kathleen Dowling Singh
Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. -- Adyashanti
One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings. -- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense. -- Gautama Buddha
People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns. -- Aleksandra Mir
We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things. -- Robert M. Edsel
The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being. -- Huineng
All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas. -- Hakuin Ekaku
Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good. -- Pope John Paul II
You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements. -- Gautama Buddha
Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness. -- Dogen
I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them. -- Eric Ripert
Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on. -- Shinjo Ito
We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this. -- Gautama Buddha
What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them. -- Shantideva
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas. -- Bodhidharma
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas. -- Bodhidharma
Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead. -- Hsuan Hua
All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it. -- Huangbo Xiyun
We don't need more Hindus, more Christians, or more Muslims - we need more Buddhas, more Jesuses, and more Krishnas - then there will be true change. Every human being has that inner potential. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan. -- Richard Dawkins
Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas. -- Huangbo Xiyun
When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this is 1,000 pieces of gold gilded wooden sculpture. In terms of design, it's up to the space's character. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All the kings, queens, Buddhas, beautiful boys. Inside you. No one can take them away. (Missing Angel Juan.) -- Francesca Lia Block
My concept was, within the five-minute video, for people to see one million Buddhas. So I made a group of the images and it keeps accelerating to reach this one million point. The movie was invented from the still photos. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual. -- Dalai Lama
Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for it. They are victims of our greed from whom we steal the most precious gift any of us has: life. -- Norm Phelps
Just as if you put your finger into water, it will get wet, and if you put it into fire, it will burn, so if you invest your mind in the wisdom mind of the Buddhas, it will transform into their wisdom nature. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots -- Buddha
Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to see the humor in an overweight negro woman with dreadlocks, no eyebrows, and is named after a childish term for flatulence. -- Zach Braff
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. -- Khaled Hosseini
Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto
All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse to expedient devices, Need have no more doubts or uncertainties. Your hearts shall give rise to great joy, Since you know that you yourselves Shall become Buddhas. -- Gautama Buddha
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf. -- Ben Whishaw
I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran. -- Newt Gingrich
newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas -- Jodi Picoult
We're all buddhas. We just don't recognize it. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Respect the gods and buddhas, but never rely on them. -- Miyamoto Musashi
Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings. -- Kim Hee-jin
We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human. -- John Welwood
When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it. -- Shunryu Suzuki
The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas. -- Nhat Hanh
Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it. -- Dogen

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