Buddha

“My children are traumatised,” Than Dar told a group of reporters in front a large reclining Buddha.

It was the first time I witnessed his balanced mix of strength and kindness, or what could be dubbed his “Buddha nature.”

But the Buddha condemned both extreme luxury and extreme poverty as obstacles to enlightenment.

The couch is too deep, and he is growing heavier; he will be Buddha-like in girth at some point soon.

This is one of the meanings of the famous Zen koan, “If you see the Buddha on the road, kill him.”

In return, each of the priests placed an image of Buddha on a tree-root, turning it into an altar.

Upon one of these monuments an upright figure of the deity Buddha is sculptured in a standing position.

No ancient teacher enjoined the duties based on an immutable morality with more force than Confucius, Buddha, and Epictetus.

The Life of Buddha by Asvaghosha is a poetical romance of nearly ten thousand lines.

Buddha travels slowly to the sacred city of Benares, converting by the way even Brahmans themselves.