Buddhist Beliefs and Teachings Quotations

• "The wise find their delight in the Dhamma, in the Truth"
• "Not until I attain the supreme Enlightenment will I give up this seat of meditation"
• "I take refuge in the Buddha

  I take refuge in the Dhamma

  I take refuge in the Sangha"
• "My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation"
• "The best of the path is the path of eight"
• "There is no joy like nirvana"
• The Questions of King Milinda - anatta - No individual bit of the chariot which can be called the chariot
• The Story of Kisa Gotami - anicca; dukkha - obtain a mustard seed from a household where no one had died
• "I vow to save them" - Bodhisattva
• "The oath to arhatship appears tainted with a residual selfishness since it lacks the motivation of the great compassion [...] of the bodhisattva"
• "Be therefore not bound to pleasure, for the loss of pleasure is pain"