Buddhist Quotes

Overcoming all perceptions of consciousness, there is nothing and one attains to the sphere of nothingness, this is the third samadhi.

Overcoming all thoughts, the mind appeased in one point, with joy and pleasantness born of concentration, one abides in the second samadhi.

Secluded from sensual desires and negative thoughts, with the joy and pleasantness born of seclusion, one abides in the first samadhi.

Overcoming thoughts, the mind appeased in one point, one experiences the joy and pleasantness born of meditation.

Delight in mediation and in solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

A monk abides with a mind that does not settle, is not bound, is released, unyoked and unrestricted, knowing there is an escape beyond this.

The pleasure of seclusion, appeasement and enlightenment should be practiced, developed, and should not be feared.

Gods and mankind have this longing for the five strands of sense-pleasures.

It is only stress that I describe, and the cessation of stress.

The wise harm no one. They are masters of their bodies and they go to the boundless country, beyond sorrow.

Follow the shinning ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving. Follow them as the moon follows the path of the stars.

Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless. Be blameless. Awake to the Dharma and from all sorrow free yourself.

In this world hate never has dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the Dharma, ancient and inexhaustible.

Seated in the cave of the heart the master finds freedom.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

The innumerable worlds in the cosmos are like the eyes of a net. Each and every world is different and its variety infinite.

Throughout the ten directions, exhausting the Dharma Realm and the realms of empty space, there are many different kinds of beings.

In the eastern direction there are also countless other buddhas, like Akshobhya and the Buddha Merudhvaja, 'Marks of the Polar Mountain'.

In the worlds of the western direction there are countless other buddhas. Each of them preaches, covers a whole cosmos, speaking the truth.

None of the sentient beings who are born in the Land of Ultimate Bliss ever fall back into a lower realm.