Quotes About Buddhism

From a Buddhist perspective, there is really nothing but resistance to be analyzed; there is no true self waiting in the wings to be released. Only by revealing the insecurity can a measure of freedom be gained. When we can know our fear as fear and surround it with the patience of Buddha, we can begin to rest in our own minds and approach those to whom we would like to feel close.

Among major religions only Buddhism and Taoism can unblinkingly encompass the universe—the universe "granulated," astronomers say, into galaxies. Does anyone believe the galaxies exist to add splendor to the night sky over Bethlehem?

In Buddhism, the eight emblems would refer to the eight marks of good fortune on the sole of Buddha's foot—wheel, conch shell, umbrella, canopy, lots flower, jar, pair of fishes, and mystic signs—which, in turn, were symbols of the organs in Buddha's body.

Atheism is unprovable, so uninteresting. However unlikely it is, we can never be certain that God once existed—and has now shot off to infinity, where no one can ever find him… Like Gautama Buddha, I take no position on this subject.

Profounder things had also passed. It was a completely secular age. Of the faiths that had existed before the coming of the Overlords, only a form of purified Buddhism—perhaps the most austere of all religions—still survived. The creeds that had been based upon miracles and revelations had collapsed utterly.

When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.

As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end. Yet death is unpredictable: We do not know when or how it will take place. So it is only sensible to take certain precautions before it actually happens.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.

Nu sunt anticreÅŸtin, eu reproÅŸez creÅŸtinismului c? nu e indeajuns de profund ca budismul. Am ales între Cer ÅŸi Nirvana.

el budismo te permite acceder a una religión sin tener fe. El budismo es una religión que tan sólo propugna el conocimiento. Te enseña que no somos sino compuestos, que esos compuestos se disuelven, que no tienen realidad, te demuestra tu irrealidad y después te dice: ahora, saca las consecuencias.

I read in some book that if you try to hold people back too much when they're dying it keeps them from being reborn as a Buddha

Something I practice everyday is Tonglin. It's Tibetan for taking and receiving.

If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

In Buddhism, it's said that a teaching is like "a finger pointing at the moon." The moon (enlightenment) is the essential thing and the pointing finger is trying to direct us to it, but it's important not to confuse finger with moon.

Life is suffering, the Buddha said, by which he did not mean Every moment of life is unbearable but rather All happiness/rest/contentment is transient; all appearances of permanence are illusory.

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

The Buddha, Eckhart and I all teach essentially the same, Eckhart within the bounds of his Christian mythology. In Buddhism, these ideas are not encumbered by any such mythology, and are thus simple and clear, to the extent that a religion can be clear. Complete clarity lies with me.

Das hindert nicht, daß mich ein Band Buddhaismus stärker als all die übrigen heiligen Bücher beeinflußt

If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

Buddhism, it seemed, was a rational religion, whose truth-claims could withstand the test of reason.

No matter how hard I tried, I was incapable of giving more importance to a hypothetical, post-mortem existence than to this very life here and now. Moreover, the Buddhist teachings and practices that had the most impact upon me did so precisely because they heightened my sense of being fully alive in and responsive to this world.