Quotes About Buddhism

My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.

Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam, prostration has been known to overcome many diseases.

La vie religieuse de la Chine, dans ses fondements, est très antérieure aux trois grands courants de sa vie spirituelle: le confucianisme, le taoïsme (à peu près au même moment) et, bien plus tard, le bouddhisme.

Los budistas tienen una fórmula para la felicidad que va en sentido contrario: FELICIDAD = REALIDAD – DESEOS

I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

There's a Buddhist saying that when your house is done your life is over. I hope Tom works on Camp Weasel forever.

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye.

Buddhism allows me to feel well, tranquil, and very happy inside. This is good not only for football but for my life in general.

OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM

The still revolutionary insight of Buddhism is that life and death are in the mind, and nowhere else. Mind is revealed as the universal basis of experience—the creator of happiness and the creator of suffering, the creator of what we call life and what we call death.

I often think of the words of the great Buddhist master Padmasambhava: "Those who believe they have plenty of time get ready only at the time of death. Then they are ravaged by regret. But isn't it far too late?" What more chilling commentary on the modern world could there be than most people die unprepared for death, as they have lived, unprepared for life?

You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

the central truth of Buddha's teaching: that we are all already essentially perfect.

One of the greatest Buddhist traditions calls the nature of mind "the wisdom of ordinariness.

This is why Buddha reminded us in the "Four Reliances": Rely on the message of the teacher, not on his personality; Rely on the meaning, not just on the words; Rely on the real meaning, not on the provisional one; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary, judgmental mind.

And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

Be free of attachment and aversion. Keep your mind pure. And unite your mind with the Buddha.

Del mismo modo que si metes un dedo en el agua te lo mojas, y si lo metes en el fuego te lo quemas, si instalas tu mente en la mente de sabiduría de los budas se transformará en su naturaleza de sabiduría.

the six realms of samsara: hell, hungry ghost, animal, human, demigod, and god realms, respectively.

from the Tibetan Buddhist point of view, we can divide our entire existence into four continuously interlinked realities: (1) life, (2) dying and death, (3) after death, and (4) rebirth. These are known as the four bardos: (1) the natural bardo of this life, (2) the painful bardo of dying, (3) the luminous bardo of dharmata, and (4) the karmic bardo of becoming.

The "inner science" of Buddhism is based, as one American scholar puts it, "on a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of reality, on an already assessed, depth understanding of self and environment; that is to say, on the complete enlightenment of the Buddha.