Buddhas Quotes and Sayings

• The mind that is chattering, that is verbalizing, cannot understand truth—truth in relationship, not an abstract truth. There is no abstract truth. But truth is very subtle. It is the subtle that is difficult to follow. It is not abstract. It comes so swiftly, so darkly, it cannot be held by the mind. Like a thief in the night, it comes darkly, not when you are prepared to receive it. Your reception is merely an invitation of greed. So a mind that is caught in the net of words cannot understand truth. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
   

• Going naked, having matted hair, covering oneself with mud or dust, fasting sleeping on bare ground, or squatting (in penance) cannot purify a being if he has not yet overcome ignorance. - Dhammapada Verses
   

• Guru is not the physical form. So the contact will remain even after the physical form of the Guru vanishes. One can go to another Guru after one's Guru passes away, but all Gurus are one and none of them is the form you see. Always mental contact is the best. - Ramana Maharshi
   

• Meditation is the way to go out of discontentment, out of anguish. You have to become just a watcher, a witness of the mind. - Osho
   

• Our effort is spent in denying or accepting, and thus thought-feeling is made blunt in this endless conflict. This surely is wrong effort for it is not productive of creative understanding. Right endeavor consists in being choicelessly aware of this conflict, in being silently observant without identification. It is this silent, choiceless awareness of conflict that brings freedom. In this passive awareness that is tranquil, reality comes into being. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
   

• I have distributed my love to everyone, deserving or undeserving, because that is my way of thinking. Everyone deserves love, just as everyone deserves breathing. Everybody is worthy of love, just as everybody is worthy of living. Love is the nourishment of your soul. - Osho