Holding On To Anger Buddha Quotes

Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die. ~ Gautama Buddha

If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart. ~ Jack Kornfield

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. ~ Gautama Buddha

Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment. ~ Gautama Buddha

Let a man overcome anger by love. ~ Gautama Buddha

Anger is the punishment we give ourselves for someone else's mistake. ~ Gautama Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger. ~ Gautama Buddha

There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool. ~ Gautama Buddha

All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas. ~ Gautama Buddha

Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods. ~ Gautama Buddha

If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger. ~ Gautama Buddha

Be your own lamp, seek no other refuge but yourself, Let truth be your light." ~Buddha ~ Buddha Monk

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth. ~ Gautama Buddha

Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth. ~ Gautama Buddha

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma. ~ Gautama Buddha

Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow. ~ Gautama Buddha

You are all the Buddha. ~ Gautama Buddha

Look within, thou art the Buddha. ~ Gautama Buddha

A jug fill drop by drop. ~ Gautama Buddha

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace. ~ Gautama Buddha

All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha. ~ Gautama Buddha

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. ~ Gautama Buddha

I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase, but what he meant was that as Black Americans we need to let our anger go, because holding on to it we hold ourselves down. We oppress ourselves by holding on to anger. ~ Bell Hooks

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again. ~ Gautama Buddha

Buddha is in our hearts. Buddha is in our mouths. Buddha is in our daily lives. ~ Gautama Buddha

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
[Verse 223] ~ Gautama Buddha

Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha's buddha nature. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche

Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up. ~ Gautama Buddha

A man asked Gautama Buddha, "I want happiness."
Buddha said, "First remove "I," that's Ego, then remove "want," that's Desire.
See now you are left with only "Happiness. ~ Gautama Buddha

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth. ~ Gautama Buddha

It's futile to talk reason to anger ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

In this world,
hate never dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. - The Buddha ~ Gautama Buddha

One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted. "No, I am not a teacher." "Then what are you?" asked the student exasperated. "I am awake," Buddha replied. ~ Gautama Buddha

Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long. ~ Iyanla Vanzant

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. ~ Gautama Buddha

How come people always flip and think they're Jesus? Why not Buddha? Particularly in America, where more people resemble Buddha than Jesus. 'Ah'm BUDDHA!' 'You're Bubba!' 'Ah'm Buddha now..All I gotta do is change 3 letters on ma belt ... ~ Bill Hicks

Anger is a two-headed serpent;
one to bite whoever is holding it,
and the other to bite whoever it is thrown at. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don't give up. ~ Gautama Buddha

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height. ~ Gautama Buddha

Beware anger is contagious...Don't allow other's anger to become yours ~ Prabakaran Thirumalai

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die. ~ Gautama Buddha

Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to. ~ Jack Kornfield

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it. ~ Huston Smith

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. ~ Gautama Buddha

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses. ~ Gautama Buddha

Learn to ne happy with what you have. ~ Gautama Buddha

Live every act fully, as if it were your last. ~ Gautama Buddha

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~ Gautama Buddha

Come and see ... place no head above your own ~ Gautama Buddha

It is better to travel well then arrive. ~ Gautama Buddha

Free your hearts of anxiety, pain and anger, to have peace within your heart and soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence. ~ Gautama Buddha

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self. ~ Gautama Buddha

One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs. ~ Gautama Buddha

Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without. ~ Gautama Buddha

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. ~ Gautama Buddha

Like a caring mother
holding and guarding the life
of her only child,
so with a boundless heart
of lovingkindness,
hold yourself and all beings
as your beloved children. ~ Gautama Buddha

Anger is not the absence of love. Anger broke you apart. Love and anger wrap around each other and becomes one living thing inside your heart. ~ Lisa Unger

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. ~ Gautama Buddha

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm. ~ Gautama Buddha

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. ~ Gautama Buddha

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you. ~ Gautama Buddha

be greatly aware of the present. ~ Gautama Buddha

A Buddhist story is that a man came shouting angrily at Buddha, who remained unaffected by him. When questioned by others as to how he remained calm and unaffected, Buddha answered with a question. "If someone gives you a gift and you choose not to receive it, to whom then does the gift belong?" Of course it stays with the giver. ~ Bronnie Ware

The importance and visibility of women's collective anger can't be overstated. This anger takes determination, thoughtfulness, and work. It means respecting our own anger and being willing to respect the anger of other women. ~ Soraya Chemaly

Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters. ~ Gautama Buddha

Every human being is the author of its own health or disease, ~ Gautama Buddha

Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha. ~ Jack Black

Peace and anger cannot coexist.in fact there is a high negative corelation , the higher the anger lesser the peace and lesser the anger higher the peace...Zero anger is probably bliss. ~ Ketan R Shah

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music. ~ Yoko Ono

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. ~ Gautama Buddha

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces. ~ Gretchen Rubin

The darkest night is ignorance. ~ Gautama Buddha

My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued. ~ Koren Zailckas

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. ~ Gautama Buddha

Holding anger is a poison. ~ Mitch Albom

Angriness is one the powerful weapon to stand up again. ~ Viral Panchal

His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed. ~ Hilary Mantel

Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape. ~ Iyanla Vanzant

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. ~ Mitch Albom

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. ~ Gautama Buddha

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha. ~ Bodhidharma

Be your own lamp. ~ Gautama Buddha

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing. ~ Barry Lyga

Pure-limbed, white-canopied, one-wheeled, the cart roles on. See him that cometh: faultless, stream-cutter, bondless he. ~ Gautama Buddha

Anger is a cover for fear. ~ Donna Goddard

A man met the Buddha after the Buddha became enlightened. The man was awed by his remarkable radiance.
"What are you?" the man asked. "Are you some kind of celestial being? A god, perhaps?"
"No," said the Buddha.
"Well, then, are you a magician or wizard?"
"No," the Buddha answered again.
"Are you a man?"
"No."
"Well, then, what are you?"
"I am awake," the Buddha replied ~ Linda Leaming

One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us ~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

If a string has one end, it has another. ~ Gautama Buddha

You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy. ~ Gautama Buddha

Happiness comes when your words are of benefit to yourself and others. ~ Gautama Buddha

Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts. ~ Gautama Buddha

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. ~ Gautama Buddha

Human desires are the main cause of suffering ~ Siddhattha Gotama Buddha

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child. ~ Gautama Buddha

The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein. ~ Gautama Buddha

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. ~ Buddha

Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. ~ Gautama Buddha

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart. ~ Gautama Buddha