The Buddha's words, 一切唯心造 (일체유심조), "All things are created by the mind" are the most widely known teachings among Buddhist sayings. This saying tells us that the root of all things lies in the mind. All emotions we experience, such as pain, joy, love, and hatred, begin in the mind and are ultimately eliminated by the mind. It contains the meaning that if you want to solve problems in life, you should first look back at your mind.
Among Buddhist sayings, there is one that is simple but carries a deep meaning. It is the teaching of 諸惡莫作 衆善奉行 (제악막작중선봉행), "Do no evil and do all good deeds." This saying, which tells us to avoid all evil and do good deeds, shows the basic attitude of Buddhist practice. It contains the meaning that good thoughts, good words, and good actions ultimately bring happiness not only to ourselves but also to those around us. This Buddhist saying guides us on the path to finding peace of mind and meaning in life by doing good deeds through small daily practices.
In Buddhism, everything that changes and disappears is called "impermanence." The Buddhist saying, 諸行無常 (제행무상), "all things are impermanent" means that everything in this world is always changing, and nothing lasts forever in that change. These teachings from Buddhist sayings awaken us to an attitude of mind that does not cling to the changes and sufferings of life, but naturally accepts them. When we acknowledge that everything can change and disappear, we can find peace of mind.
The teachings of the Buddha often mention that letting go of attachment brings true freedom and happiness. The Buddhist saying, 無執無畏 (무집무외), “No attachment, no fear” contains exactly this teaching. The attachment to something and not letting go ultimately creates fear and anxiety. However, the moment you let go of that attachment, you gain freedom and peace of mind. Buddhist sayings convey the Buddha’s message to let go of attachment and live a free life.
The Buddhist saying, 不怒 (불노), "Don't get angry" tells us that not getting angry is true wisdom. Anger is like a fire that burns itself out, so even though it may feel good to get angry for a moment, it will eventually harm yourself and those around you. The Buddha tells us to control our anger and find peace of mind, and he teaches us that the process is the path to wisdom.
The Buddhist saying, “All dharmas are without self (諸法無我 제법무아)” tells us that all our experiences and emotions are ultimately temporary. The emotions we experience, such as sadness, joy, anger, and fear, will eventually disappear and pass with time. This Buddhist saying conveys the wisdom of the Buddha to not dwell on the difficult moments of the present and to remember that everything will pass.
In Buddhism, compassion (慈悲) means the mind that regards the suffering and pain of others as one's own and wants to help them. The Buddhist saying "Great Compassion (大慈大悲 대자대비) emphasizes the practice of unconditional love and compassion. When we treat the world with a compassionate heart, we can feel a deep connection with others, and the happiness and peace that come from it are indescribably great.
Searching all directions with your awareness, you find no one dearer than yourself. In the same way, others are dear to themselves. So you shouldn’t hurt others if you love yourself. - the Buddha
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings. ~Bodhidharma
The person who sins will die. A son will not be punished for his father's sins, and a father will not be punished for his son's sins. The righteousness of the righteous person will be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked person will be his own. - Ezekiel 18
Karma will always find you in the rightful place to pay for your deed. - Edward Rim
“The meaning of karma is in the intention. The intention behind action is what matters.” - The Bhagavad Gita
Killing, deceiving, or misleading someone's mind by driving him to insanity or mindless wasteland by preaching a fake religious doctrine or faith is the worst of all the karma you can inflict on yourself and others. - Edward Rim
“Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.” ~ F. Paul Wilson, The Tomb
Karma does not necessarily reward or retribute in like kind, but with the exact weight to an ounce, in severity, or in magnitude. Often stretching many lives afterward, there is no such thing as forgiveness or salvation from karma. You are what your karma is. You live as you pay for your karma, building and changing your karma at the same time. -Edward Rim
“Karma is a tricky thing. To serve karma, one must repay good karma to others. To serve karma well, one must sometimes deliver bad karma where it is due.” —M.R. Mathias
“Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we all have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn’t predestine anything. We create our own causes and Karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance.” - Mary T. Browne
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.” ―Arthur Conan Doyle
I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma. ~Marcia Wallace
“You might have burned me with your lies, but karma is about to set you on fire.”
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion. ~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
“Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.” - Sakyong Mipham
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”
“Contrary to popular misconception, karma has nothing to do with punishment and reward. It exists as part of our holographic universe’s binary or dualistic operating system only to teach us responsibility for our creations, and all things we experience are our creations.” – Sol Luckman
“Every act is done, no matter how insignificant, will eventually return to the doer with equal impact. Good will be returned with good; evil with evil.”
“I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.” —Holly Valance
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
“When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, ‘Yes, this is how I ought to feel.'” —Harold Kushner
“The universe does not carry debts. It always returns back to you what you gave it.”
I've really been extremely lucky. Some people work just as hard, are just as intelligent, and they don't get their breaks. I've just gotten the breaks. Maybe it's good karma.
“Remember to honor the hand which reached out for you when you needed it, by being that hand to someone else who is struggling.” ―Greg Dutilly
“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.” —Buddha
“There are the waves, and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma, and free will.”
“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”
“When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life.” —Keanu Reeves
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that's all you're going to get back.
“Sometimes you get what’s coming around. And sometimes you are what’s coming around.”
“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”
“Before you act, you have freedom, but after you act, the effect of that action will follow you whether you want it to or not. That is the law of karma.”
“Show a little faith in someone when they need it. It’s amazing how it comes back around to you.”
“It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.” —Daisaku Ikeda
“The ones you judge today may be the judgments you endure tomorrow.”
“Realize that everything connects to everything else.” —Leonardo da Vinci
“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.”
“You cannot control the results, only your actions.”
“When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it’s because of karma, some past connection.”
“This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later.” —H. Raven Rose
“If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.”
“If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same?” —Alexandra Katehakis
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
“Most times, how you treat your children is how they grow up to treat you.” —Terry Mark
“Karma: getting what you deserve and deserving what you get.”
“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.” —Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
“There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.” —Sylvester Stallone
“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.”
“You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.”
“Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.”
“I want revenge, but I don’t want to screw up my karma.” —Susan Colasanti
“Sometimes you get the karma. Sometimes you are the karma.”
“I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.”
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. ~Mahavira
“Every moment of your life, you perform an action—physically, mentally, emotionally, and energy-wise. Each action creates a certain memory. That is karma.”
“Karma is extremely efficient if one is extremely patient.”
“People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.”
“Each individual is solely responsible for his or her own actions, and every action will produce a reaction equal in every way to the suit of the action.”
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
“In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.”
“Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap.”
“If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.”
“Remember the unkindness, dishonesty, and deception you display toward others… don’t be shocked when it comes back to bite you.”
“You reap what you sow: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.”
“Often when someone hurts you, they aren’t hurting you because you are you. They are hurting you because they are them.” —Karen Salmansohn
“Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.”
“What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.”
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. ~Dalai Lama
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence." ~ Nikola Tesla
Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again. ~Deepak Chopra
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs
I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good. ~Sandra Bullock
See, talent is important, and so is hard work. But if you don't have destiny and good karma on your side, talent cannot do the magic by itself. ~Himesh Reshammiya
I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it's all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen. ~Judith Durham
I think we all follow our destiny, we all have karma, we all have certain life paths and life journeys that we have to take. ~Bebe Buell
My mother made me believe in reincarnation, in karma. If I live a good life, I believe I will be reincarnated as a higher being. If I live a bad life, I believe I will be reincarnated as a lower being. ~John Barnes
I'm a firm believer in karma. By doing good, good things eventually find you. I don't have an American Express Black Card, but I like to think that I would if I could fill it with karma points. ~Chieh Huang
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of it. ~Antonio Brown
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
“The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.” – Ben Okri
Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. ~Sharon Salzberg
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings. ~Bodhidharma
“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
“Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.”
“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”
“Every act is done, no matter how insignificant, will eventually return to the doer with equal impact. Good will be returned with good; evil with evil.”
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
“The universe does not carry debts. It always returns back to you what you gave it.”
“The ones you judge today may be the judgments you endure tomorrow.”
“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.”
“You cannot control the results, only your actions.”
“If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.”
“Karma: getting what you deserve and deserving what you get.”
“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.”
“You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.”
“Sometimes you get the karma. Sometimes you are the karma.”
“One never escapes karma, every action is stored subconsciously.”
“Every moment of your life, you perform an action—physically, mentally, emotionally, and energy-wise. Each action creates a certain memory. That is karma.”
“Each individual is solely responsible for his or her own actions, and every action will produce a reaction equal in every way to the suit of the action.”
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
“In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.”
“Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap.”
“If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.”
“Remember the unkindness, dishonesty, and deception you display toward others… don’t be shocked when it comes back to bite you.”
“You reap what you sow: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.”
“What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.”
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. -Steve Jobs
I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.
See, talent is important, and so is hard work. But if you don't have destiny and good karma on your side, talent cannot do the magic by itself.
I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it's all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.
I think we all follow our destiny, we all have karma, we all have certain life paths and life journeys that we have to take.
Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
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