Quotes About Buddhism

The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present; and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else's success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

Lo que somos hoy es consecuencia de nuestros pensamientos de ayer», enseñaba el Buda Gautama.

All compounded things are impermanent!" "Everything bound up with pollution is suffering!" "All phenomena are devoid of self!" and "Nirvana is peace!

Annotation 50: What is to be understood by primordial wisdom and discriminative wisdom is explained slightly differently in the Rangtong and Shäntong systems.

The dharmakaya of all buddhas, the Tathagata, the noble truth, and the absolute nirvana are but synonymous terms, being just different aspects that have the same essence.

Just as on a dark night black with clouds, The sudden lightning glares and all is clearly shown, Likewise rarely, through the Buddhas' power, Virtuous thoughts rise, brief and transient, in the world.

The path the Buddha taught and is explaining to Po??hap›da in this sutta has to be followed step by step. First comes morality, then guarding the sense-doors, mindfulness and clear comprehension, contentment, letting go of the hindrances, and — only after these — the first meditative absorption.

The goal of the Buddha's teaching is Nibb?na (Sanskrit: Nirv??a). Literally translated, that means "not burning," or in other words, the loss of all passions.

In Buddhism, consciousness is central because all phenomena are realized to be mere appearances to consciousness that have no independent existence.

According to the general Buddhist view, the whole of sa?s?ra, with its myriad pleasant and miserable realms, is a prison. But from the perspective of pristine awareness, all of sa?s?ra and nirv??a is equally suffused by the primordial purity of the Great Perfection.

Within Tibetan Buddhism, shamatha practice maps on to the nine stages of attentional development wherein thoughts gradually subside as concentrative power is increased to the point at which one can effortlessly maintain single-pointed focus on a chosen object for at least four hours. The accomplishment of shamatha is accompanied by a powerful experience of bliss, luminosity, and stillness.

What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.

Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.

Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.