Do you love Buddha quotes, does Buddhism fascinate you, or are you a Buddhist? Well, here we have a wholesome collection of the best Buddha quotes you will find anywhere. But before we can get into that, how about a brief Buddha background?
Did you know that Buddha was, in fact, a wandering ascetic called Siddhartha Gautama? He was born in Lumbini, current day Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan. This was around the 5th or 6th BCE.
Gautama renounced his home life to live as a wanderer. He begged and meditated until he gained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya which is current day India. After this he wandered teaching and building monastic order.
His teachings dwelled on a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and severe asceticism that bring about Nirvana. Nirvana is the freedom from ignorance, craving, rebirth, and suffering.
He believed in meditative practices like sense restraint, kindness towards others, mindfulness, and jyana. Gautama died in Kushinagar attaining paranirvana. He was known as Buddha which means the enlightened one or the awakened one.
His teachings lived on in the Vinaya and the Sutta Pitaka which contain the core rules and teachings of Buddhism. They were at first passed down orally before being composed into other texts like the Abhidharma, biographies of the Buddha, the Jataka tales, and discourses like the Mahayana sutras.
The Buddha is venerated by various religions and communities across Asia. All forms of Buddhism celebrate the events in Gautama's life like his birth, enlightenment, and passage into Nirvana. Some regions celebrate all events in one day while others hold them on different days.
Although Gautama is revered as the first Buddha and he was the founder of Buddhism, there have been other Buddhas in the past and there will be more in the future. And now, without further ado, let's get into our collection of wholesome Buddha quotes.
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