Bud Quotes - Page 3

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.

The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.

(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.