Buddhas Quotes and Sayings

• Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind.
  Just be an observer, as if you are standing by the side of the road watching the traffic -- no judgment, no evaluation, no condemnation, no appreciation -- just pure observation. - Osho
   

• People may quote the scriptures, make sacrifices to the gods, perform actions and pay homage to the deities, but there is no liberation without recognising the oneness of one's own true being (soul) - not even in the lifetime of a hundred Brahmas (countless millions of years). - Adi Shankaracharya
   

• LIFE is basically insecure. That’s its intrinsic quality; it cannot be changed. Death is secure, absolutely secure. The moment you choose security, unknowingly you have chosen death. The moment you choose life, unawares you have chosen insecurity. - Osho
   

• The meditative mind is seeing - watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion - attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day. And at night, when the whole organism is at rest, the meditative mind has no dreams for it has been awake all day. It is only the indolent who have dreams; only the half-asleep who need the intimation of their own states. But as the mind watches, listens to the movement of life, the outer and the inner, to such a mind comes a silence that is not put together by thought. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
   

• Wherever holy men dwell, that is indeed a place of joy - be it in the village, or in a forest, or in a valley or on the hills. - The Dhammapada
   

• The same tree of desire has two kinds of fruit; one kind of fruit, which is sweet, is pleasure; and the other kind of fruit, which is bitter, is suffering. If the tree is allowed to flourish, it cannot be made to yield only one kind of fruit; one who has given a bid for one kind of fruit must also be ready to have the other also. Man pursues pleasure furiously and clings to it fondly when it comes; and he tries to avoid impending suffering desperately and smarts under it with resentment; but his fury and fondness are not of much avail, because the pleasure he gets is doomed to fade and disappear one day; and his desperateness and resentment are equally of no avail, because he cannot escape enduring the suffering which comes to his lot. - Meher Baba