Buddha Quotes

“Sand, leads me to the shores of new discoveries.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Life is the circle within which I find myself.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Cover the seeds in rainbows if you wish the trees to blossom.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“—No te enojes conmigo, ¡oh Sublime! —dijo el joven—. No te he dicho esto para buscar una controversia contigo. Tienes razón cuando dices que las opiniones sirven de poco. Pero permíteme que añada esto otro: no he dudado ni un momento de ti. No he dudado ni un momento que eres Buda, que has alcanzado la meta, la más alta, hacia la cual se encaminan tantos
miles de brahmanes e hijos de brahmanes. Tú has encontrado la redención de la muerte. La has logrado por tu propia búsqueda, en tu propio camino, pensando, meditando por el conocimiento, por inspiración. ¡No la has alcanzado por una doctrina! ¡Y yo creo, oh Sublime, que a nadie se le puede procurar la redención por una doctrina!

¡A nadie podrás, oh Venerable, decir ni comunicar por palabras o por una doctrina lo que te sucedió en el momento de tu transfiguración!—”
― Herman Hesse, Siddartha

“The Bodhisattva rests in glacial air, under
a dust of snow, leaves fallen into one arm.
This fairyland Buddha sits in an exquisite
etched chair, a powdery image of beauty.
Winter brings blinding thoughts of flaky
falling dreams, slushy icy hard footprints,
with crunchy mantras of wind. Forever
surrounded by obscuring of days, whiteout
of the mundane, penetrating freeze, and
blizzard of emptiness. Crystalline diamond
Vajra surrounded by endings. Slow drifting
meditations that meander to the ground.
White snow like bones, cold as death, frozen
in compassion. Drifting to enlightenment
with vows to return until all are in blessed
fields. Icy mantra Om Mani Padme Hum
to mountain emptiness, echoing forever
in alpine Buddhafields. Not this, nor that—
but always something else. These days, we
mostly see blessed falling flakes of snow.”
― Ruth Ann Oskolkoff, The Bones of the Poor

“How is it we can cry tears when we defeat ourselves?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“We each belong.
But where?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Fears pave the twilight in darkness.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“You are the children of happiness so smile and make your parents proud.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Don't plant weeds in your garden if you are only hoping for flowers to grow.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Not all ripples leave footprints in the sand.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The way forward is back through the door that you came through.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“To truly see, you must be blind to life.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I have never sought revenge, I don’t believe in retaliation. Peace is all I seek. Peace is all we need.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“When you hide in the barren fields of waste, people can see the actions that led you there.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The doorway through which you enter, determines the doorway through which you exit.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Who feasts when the banquet doors are locked from the inside?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Fears are what keep my eyes filled with tears.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“How many tears does your water bottle in life hold?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Greed will be the landlord of man's estate.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“You should not water the ground if all that you see are weeds.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Khun Mae went to bed past midnight. After a few minutes, her mouth opened. Her hair
was a dark cloud on the pillow. Up and up, she drifted above her bed, through the white
mosquito nets, until she was as light as a sea bird. She drifted through the open flap of her
window, into the balmy night air. Through the rainstorm, she flew, over the city of Bangkok and
its blurry lights, until the stars themselves guided this bird on her journey into the mountains, and
above Tham Luang cave.”
― Suzy Davies

“Khun Mae went to bed past midnight. After a few minutes, her mouth opened. Her hair was a dark cloud on the pillow. Up and up, she drifted above her bed, through the white mosquito nets, until she was as light as a sea bird. She drifted through the open flap of her window, into the balmy night air. Through the rainstorm, she flew, over the city of Bangkok and
its blurry lights, until the stars themselves, guided this bird on her journey into the mountains, and
above Tham Luang cave.”
― Suzy Davies

“Khun Mae went to bed past midnight. After a few minutes, her mouth opened. Her hair was a dark cloud on the pillow. Up and up, she drifted above her bed, through the white mosquito nets, until she was as light as a sea bird. She drifted through the open flap of her window, into the balmy night air. Through the rainstorm, she flew, over the city of Bangkok and its blurry lights, until the stars themselves, guided this bird on her journey into the mountains, and above Tham Luang cave.”
― Suzy Davies

“It's a brave person who can admit that they are ready to fulfil their destiny.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Ignorant, ordinary people like us experience disgust when seeing someone old and weak, despite the fact that we ourselves cannot avoid the same fate. Gotama, experiencing the same emotion, turned that disgust toward himself, ashamed that he should feel that way toward someone whose fate he would eventually share. He similarly personalized the problems of illness and death. Such reflection is the outcome of a genuine and keenly felt emotion.
Every grown person wants to remain forever young, never to grow old, fall sick, and die. Such a wish, though, arising as it does from the nature of human existence, can never be attained.”
― Hajime Nakamura, Gotama Buddha

“When you are in two minds, is your journey coming to an end or only just beginning?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Only you will know the difference that you make in the world.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“In order to believe in your future, you just need to be able to see the road that you must travel.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“In biology and cosmology alike (for both are two sides of the same coin) it could and it should be said that life is self celebrating itself as differentiated so not to be by itself and with this realization, which is rather profound, comes the equally profound understanding that the purpose of self, or the meaning of life as we call it, is nothing else but companionship otherwise known as love. So if i were to talk to a theologist about allah, buddha or god; it would certainly not be incorrect to state the purpose of god is love, and, similarly so, if i were to talk to a cosmologist; it would certainly not be incorrect to state that the purpose of the cosmos is love.”
― W. Wassermann