Buddhadasa Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 9 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Buddhadasa.
Famous Quotes By Buddhadasa
The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, and the Earth. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise
then we can build a noble environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we shall perish. — Buddhadasa
The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do. — Buddhadasa
Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back — Buddhadasa
True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'. — Buddhadasa
To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief; not to believe stupidly, or to rely only on people, textbooks, conjecture, reasoning, or whatever the majority believes, but rather to believe what we see clearly for ourselves to be the case. This is how it is in Buddhism. — Buddhadasa
What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering. — Buddhadasa
Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want. — Buddhadasa
All beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds
left silent by laying to rest all things. — Buddhadasa
Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits. — Buddhadasa