Quotes About Buddhism

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

Nu avea un discurs de psihiatru tipic, în fine, era suportabil. Îmi amintesc c?-mi sugera s? m? "eliberez de leg?turi"; p?rea mai curând o tr?nc?neal? budist?. Ce s? eliberez? Toat? fiinÈ›a mea era o leg?tur?.

Buddhists advise us to "act always as if the future of the universe depended on what you did, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever you do makes any difference." This serious playfulness makes it possible to be both engaged and carefree at the same time.

Desire is powerful. As the Buddhist teacher Mark Epstein writes, "Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully." 2

Budist? ?sitikinimu, vyras ir moteris turi tobul?ti t?kstant? met?, tik tada juodu sudarys karm?,leidžian?i? pad?ti galvas ant tos pa?ios pagalv?s.

The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that's not the one. When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.

The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that's not the one. When you meet your soul mate you'll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation. I say, the Buddhists don't have a clue.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen That is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation Is itself the Middle Way.

All the dogmatists have been terrified by the lion's roar of shunyata. Wherever they may reside, shunyata lies in wait! Nagarjuna: Master of Wisdom: Writitngs of the Buddhist Mastar Nagarjuna

The Buddhists are right -- and so is Kundera -- this lightness of being is perfectly unbearable. Who can accept the idea of having only one life?

Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord.

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

Zooming into the boundary of the M-set, we find smaller and smaller island molecules, surrounded by increasingly intricate circular patterns, evocative of Oriental art, particularly in the meditative designs of Buddhism known as mandalas.

In Mahayana Buddhism, the fractal nature of reality is illustrated in the Avatamsaka Sutra by the metaphor of Indra's net, a vast network of precious gems hanging over the palace of the god Indra, so arranged that if you look at one you see all the others reflected in it.

Against The Stream is more than just another book about meditation. It is a manifesto and field guide for the front lines of the revolution. It is the culmination of almost two decades of meditative dissonance from the next generation of Buddhists in the West, It is a call to awakening for the sleeping masses.

It is not true to say that there is no self at all or that everything is empty or illusory, but it is true that everything is constantly changing and that there is no solid, permanent, unchanging self within the process that is life.

Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom.

Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life

Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom. But I don't believe we're dealing with all that that means. We haven't even begun to deal with it.

The Buddhist teachings move along a graduated path: first the stages of calm abiding and then the stages of deep insight. Through such gradual practices, lamas of the past gave birth to realization in their mental continuum and discovered primordial wisdom. All the qualities that the great masters found, we can attain as well. It all depends on our own efforts, our diligence, our deeper knowing, and our correct motivation. – 17th Karmapa

Sanzen is classified into sosan (mandatory interviews for those with koan) and dokusan (individual interviews).

All beings are primarily Buddhas," can be called the primary statement of the essence of Buddhism. According to scholars of religion, religion means the completion of the individual as the Whole.

Gedo Zen as religious discipline following teachings based on a perspective outside of Buddhism.

the differences between the Soto and the Rinzai sects seem to be due to differences between two major types of human beings,