Timeless Buddhist wisdom quotes celebrating mindfulness, compassion, and enlightenment.
Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.
Ajahn Chah
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.
Dalai Lama
A pure mind is always full of love - real love for all others.
S N Goenka
The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge.
Milarepa
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Alan Watts
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Through continuous mindfulness practice, the true nature of physical and mental phenomena becomes clear.
Mahasi Sayadaw
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.
Thich Nhat Hanh
When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions.
Suzuki Roshi
The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.
Dogen
Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.
Mingyur Rinpoche
The goal of meditation is not to reach some highest place, but to remain in the place where you already are.
Milarepa
The master's introduction is direct recognition of one's own nature. Meditation is maintaining the continuity of this recognition.
Padmasambhava
The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.
Ajahn Brahm
The key to the Buddha's teaching is not grasping, not trying to hold onto things that are essentially impermanent and unstable.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
The purpose of meditation is not to create a new state of mind, but to recognize what is already present.
Mingyur Rinpoche
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
Where is the place that your original face has not yet emerged?
Hakuin
Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.
Mahasi Sayadaw
In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.
Dogen
Those who know emptiness, know impermanence. Those who know impermanence, know non-self. Those who know non-self, know peace.
Nagarjuna
Meditation is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about changing the way we relate to them.
Sharon Salzberg
My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.
Padmasambhava
Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.
Buddha
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
Buddha
The path of practice requires both faith and wisdom, both devotion and understanding.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.
Nagarjuna
As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.
Suzuki Roshi