Quotes About Buddhism

Actually, from the Buddhist context all words—and all beings—are verbs, in dynamic activity.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

A Buddhist principle holds that awareness leads to empathy.

Buddhist mindfulness meditation called vipassana, which means "to see clearly

In the Buddhist tradition, one who has realized the fullness of compassion and lives from compassion is called a bodhisattva.

The Buddha uses the framework of the four noble truths to formulate this insight: the first truth, the truth of suffering, is the illness. The second truth, the truth of the origin of suffering, refers to the cause of the illness. The third truth, the truth of cessation, is the understanding that a complete cure is possible. And the fourth truth, the truth of the path that leads to cessation, is the cure.

Buddhism does not consider the root cause of our problems to be an external agent of this life, but rather an internal agent developed over many lifetimes—the habitual tendencies of our own minds.

No matter the level of subtlety of view, all Buddhist schools agree that only a previous moment of mind can cause the present moment of mind.

It is vital that we are clear that the Prasangika Madhyamaka masters are not denying the existence of self, body, pain, table, and so on; they are arguing that the mind apprehends these things as if they have inherent nature, which they do not.

We see things as existing permanently and cling to anything that reinforces our concept of permanence, pushing away anything that threatens it. Attachment and aversion are the roots of all other problems, and they themselves are caused by ignorance. Thus ignorance, attachment, and aversion—what Buddhism calls the three poisons—are the origin (the second noble truth) of suffering (the first noble truth).

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

Qu'est-ce qu'une religion, en effet, sinon une secte qui a réussi ? Inversement, une secte est une religion qui a raté. Originellement, le bouddhisme est une secte du brahmanisme et le christianisme est une secte du judaïsme – leur triomphe final en a fait des religions.

Almost all religions from Buddhism to Islam feature either a humble prophet or a prince who comes to identify with the poor, but what is this if not populism? It is hardly a surprise if religions choose to address themselves first to the majority who are poor and bewildered and uneducated.

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.

That's it?" Joshua asked, as he hopped off his post and winced upon landing. "Why did we set up twenty posts if we were only going to use three?" "Why were you thinking of twenty when you can only stand on one?" answered Three. "I have to pee," I said. "Exactly," said the monk. So there you have it: Buddhism.   Each

The martial arts would not be developed by Buddhist monks until after that, but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, What if Jesus had known kung fu?

La raíz es Aum o Um, que por lo demás es el Om budista, es el nombre de Dios en la lengua adámica. Um es una sílaba que, debidamente pronunciada, se convierte en un mantra poderosísimo y provoca en la psique corrientes fluídicas de armonía a través de la siakra o Plexo Frontal.

A great deal of our suffering arises because we are conflicted about reputation. Instead of being concerned about the reality of what we are, we're concerned about what other people think of us. We're too outward looking. That's incredible. As far as Buddhism is concerned, that's a sick mind; totally, clinically sick.

According to the Buddhist point of view, there is no human problem that cannot be solved by human beings.

Buddhists make it very simple for you to reach your heavenly reward. To reach Nirvana, all you have to do is live right, think right, and deny yourself just about everything.

The Book of Eights' emphasis is on overcoming any longing for any form of future rebirth. In contrast to later Buddhist teachings that are predicated on the belief in rebirth, the Book of Eights presents a path of practice—attainable in this lifetime—that appears free from concern with multiple lives.