buddhism

• What did the Buddha say about suffering in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta?

  "Birth is suffering, sickness is suffering, aging is suffering, death is suffering, that which is impermeant is suffering."
• What did the Buddha say about his teachings in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta?

  "I teach suffering and I teach the stopping of suffering"
• What did the Buddha say about asceticism and luxury in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta?

  "The two extremes ought not be cultivated"
• What did the Buddha say about the path in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta?


  "Just this noble eightfold path: right view, right aspiration, right speech,

  right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. I followed that path."
• What did the Buddha say about karma and intention in the Dhammapada?

  "It is intention that I call Karma"
• What did the Buddha say about an impure mind in the Dhammapada?

  "If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows him as the wheels of the cart follows the beast that draws it... If a man speaks or acts with a pure joy, joy follows him as his own shadow."
• What did the Buddha say about evil in the Dhammapada?

  "should a person do evil, let him not do it again and again, let him not find pleasure in it. For painful is the accumulation of evil."
• What did the Buddha say about refuge in the Dhammapada?

  "One is one's own Master, one's own refuge"
• What did The Buddha say about mindfulness in the Metta Sutta?


  "Whether standing, walking, sitting or lying... one should develop mindfulness."
• What did the Buddha say about love in the Metta Sutta?

  "Just as a mother would protect her only child at the risk of her own life, even so let him cultivate a boundless heart towards all beings"
• What did the Buddha say about his teachings in the Sutta Pitaka?

  "Just as a goldsmith tests his gold by burning and rubbing, so you must test my words and accept them not merely out of reverence for me"
• What did the Buddha say about the analogy of the poisoned arrow?

  "The man would die without ever knowing these things"
• What did the Buddha teach about earning a living?

  The Buddha taught his followers earn their living as the bee collects pollen from the flower - "harming neither the beauty or the fragrance"
• What did the Buddha teach about stinginess?


  "Conquer stinginess with a gift"
• What did the Buddha say about merit?

  "Train in acts of merit which bring long lasting bliss. Develop generosity"
• What did the Buddha say about the Dharma?

  The Dharma is like a raft "For crossing over, not holding on to"
• What did the Buddha say about doubt?

  "It is proper that you should doubt"
• What does the Heart Sutra say about the dharmas?

  "All dharmas are marked with emptiness"
• What does the Heart Sutra say about attainment?


  "No attainment with nothing to attain"
• What does the Lotus Sutra say about the children?

  "The children were distracted by their childish games"
• What does the Lotus Sutra say is important?

  "The important thing being that they were rescued from the burning house"
• What does the Shurangama Sutra say about the finger and the moon?


  "Guided by the finger, he sees the moon. If he looks at the moon and mistakes it for the finger, he loses not only the moon but the finger also"
• What does the Diamond Sutra say about Bodhisattvas?


  "The Bodhisattva gives without a nation of a gift or a giver"
• What did the Dalaï Lama say about greed?

  "Greed makes you ill".
• What did the Dalaï Lama say about kindness?

  "My religion is Simple; my religion is kindness"
• What did the Dalaï Lama say about Buddhism and science?

  "The Buddhist view of phenomena as dynamic and of momentary nature... is quite close to the view of the universe as presented by modern physics"
• What did the Dalaï Lama say about universal responsibility?

  "Universal responsibility is the key to human survival"
• What did Thich Nhat Hanh say about taking action?

  "Should we continue to practice in our monasteries? Or leave in order to offer spiritual and practical help?" He decided to do both, saying "Once we see that something needs to be done we must take action. Seeing and acting go together"
• What did Thich Nhat Hanh say about acts?

  "Even the simplest acts can become an act of enlightenment".
• What did Thich Nhat Hanh say about mindfulness practice?

  "The lives of many people depend on our mindful practice"
• What did Thich Nhat Hanh say about compassion?


  "It's not enough to talk about Compassion; we must do the work of compassion".
• What did Williams say about the Buddha?


  'The Buddha was a member of a distinct social group in the Indian religious scene.
• What did Williams say about the Buddha's existence?

  'If it could be shown for certain...that the Buddha never existed that need not, as such, have dramatic repercussions for Buddhists.
• What did Asita say about the Buddha to his father?

  'A heavenly voice has been heard by me in the heavenly path, that thy son has been born for the sake of supreme knowledge.
• What did Rahula say about the Buddha?

  'A heavenly voice has been heard by me in the heavenly path, that thy son has been born for the sake of supreme knowledge.
• What did Piyadassi say about the Buddha's life?

  'Lacking nothing of the earthly joys of life, he lived amid song and dance, in luxury and pleasure, knowing nothing of sorrow.
• What did Carrithers say about the Buddha?


  'The Buddha was but one of many youths who left home, attracted by the challenge of the wandering life.
• What did Narada Thera say about the Buddha's asceticism?

  'His body was reduced to almost a skeleton. The more he tormented his body, the farther his goal receded from him.
• What did Samyutta Nikaya say about Mara's temptations?

  'Mara's daughters - Tanha, Arati, and Raga - approached the Blessed One and said to him: "We serve at your feet, ascetic." But he paid no attention, as he was liberated in the unsurpassed extinction of acquisitions.
• What did Malalasekera say about the Buddha and Mara?

  'That this account of Buddha's struggle with Mara is literally true, none but the most ignorant of the Buddhists believe, even at the present day.