Quotes About Buddhism

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.

A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.

Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.

The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.

Like Buddhists, Stoics advise us to contemplate the world's impermanence. "All things human," Seneca reminds us, "are short-lived and perishable."19

El Buda examinó el fenómeno del ser humano examinando su propia naturaleza. Dejando a un lado toda idea preconcebida, exploró la realidad interior y descubrió que cada ser es un compuesto de cinco procesos, cuatro de ellos mentales y uno físico.

el Buda examinó también la mente y encontró que, en términos amplios y globales, constaba de cuatro procesos: consciencia (viññ??a), percepción (sañña), sensación (vedar?) y reacción (sa?kh?ra).

The Noble Eightfold Path can be divided into three stages of training: s?la, sam?dhi, and paññ?. S?la is moral practice, abstention from all unwholesome actions of body and speech. Sam?dhi is the practice of concentration, developing the ability to consciously direct and control one's own mental processes. Paññ? is wisdom, the development of purifying insight into one's own nature.

Three parts of the Noble Eightfold Path fall within the training of s?la: right speech, right action, and right livelihood.

El Buda comprendió que nuestro sufrimiento no es un mero producto de la casualidad, sino que tiene una causa, como la tienen todos los fenómenos. La ley de causa y efecto —kamma— es universal y fundamental a la existencia. No hay causas que caigan fuera de nuestro control.

el Buda anunció: "La mente precede a todos los fenómenos, la mente es lo que más importa. La mente lo produce todo. Si con una mente impura hablas o actúas, entonces el sufrimiento te sigue, como la rueda del carro sigue la huella del animal uncido. Si con una mente pura hablas o actúas, entonces la felicidad te sigue como una sombra que nunca se separa"3.