Buddhist Beliefs and Teachings Quotations

Cards (11)

  • "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"