What are your favourite Buddhist quotes?

Of the few I've read, I like the one that says something like:

An experience of wisdom should be followed by a change on the inside but you should look the same on the outside.


What are your favourite short Buddhist quotes?

 

Someone asked the Buddha "are you a god"?


"No" he replied.

"Are you a saint?"

"No" he replied.

"Who are you then?"

"I am awake."

 

Thanks Sed. Very enlightening.

Any more?

 

"Believe nothing, O monks merely because you have been told it...or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings-that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."​

Buddha.

 

I like the quote on my signature. The other saying I like is "Do not speak- unless it improves on silence." There's a ton more at the following website.

http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/resources/buddhist_quotes.html

Peace and love

 

excellent link, hippie.

as someone who's probably studied the enlightening words in that link, let me ask your view on this daoist quote:

people are difficult to govern because they're clever. so old daoists did not enlighten people, but left them dull and boring.


what does anyone think about this?

 

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/SHALOM/dhammapada.html :

edited.

 

interesting white feather. the opening page of the tao te ching describes similar thoughts.

any more buddhist quotes, anyone?

 

Sukhavati Sutra:
There are three kinds of people in the world. The first are those who are like letters carved in rock; they easily give way to anger and retain their anger thoughts for a long time. The second are those who are like letters written in sand; they give way to anger also, but their angry thoughts quickly pass away. The third is those who are like letters written in running water; they do not retain their passing thoughts; they let abuse and uncomfortable gossip pass by unnoticed; their minds are always pure and undisturbed.
Dhammapada 5
Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law.

 

Fundamentally perfect wisdom has no tree
Nor has the bright mirror any stand
Buddha nature is forever clear and pure
Where has it be defiled by any dust? - Hui Neng, 6th Patriarch of Chan (Zen)

 

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Hui Neng tearing up the sutras.

 

Hey now... don't pick too much on the 6th Patriarch.

 

He's one of my faves, along with Lin Chi.

 

From Lin Chi:


1.) In the hall the master (Lin Chi) said to the assembly 'In your red heart, there is a true man of no fixed position who comes in and goes out through your forehead; I urge those who have not experienced this to try to see it.'
A monk came forward, asking 'What is a true man of no fixed position?'
Descending from his meditation bed, the master grasped him, ordereing 'Speak! Speak!'
As the monk hesitated to reply, the master pushed him away saying 'Is the true man of no fixed position such a toilet stick?' He then returned to the abbot's room.


2.) The master said: 'This mountain monk has no Dharma to give to others; his consists in curing diseases and untying bonds. Rather than clinging to this mountain monk's words, it is far better for you to stop thinking and take a rest, thus without more ado'.