Quotes About Teachings

The fact that you have never betrayed my teachings, and the fact that you swear never to betray them: this is to betray them already.

Dzogchen Tantra when it suggests: 'As a bee seeks nectar from all kinds of flowers, seek teachings everywhere. Like a deer that finds a quiet place to graze, seek seclusion to digest all that you have gathered. Like a mad one beyond all limits, go where you please and live like a lion, completely free of all fear.

People did not come to God through Jesus as much as they saw the priorities of God in Jesus.

I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

As you know, my father was for the inclusiveness and the betterment of society and the world. Certainly we recognize that there are diverse voices in our country, and people have the right of free speech. They have the right of choice, but again, it is our hope that when they choose, they choose to reflect those ideals that he taught us.

There are an infinite number of ways in which people suffer. Therefore, there must be an infinite number of ways in which the Dharma is made available to people." What he meant by Dharma was the universal teachings of the Buddha on suffering and the possibility of liberation from suffering.

Marion had long been inspired, intellectually, by Russ's conviction that a gospel of love and community was truer to Christ's teachings than a gospel of guilt and damnation. But lately she'd begun to wonder.

En el centro de todas las verdaderas enseñanzas del dharma está la comprensión de que el sufrimiento y la insatisfacción se originan en la forma en que tu mente responde y reacciona a las circunstancias de la vida, no en los mismos hechos de la vida.

But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an idiom that the hero taught me. I do them because I am not a big fucking asshole. That is another idiom that the hero taught me.

I used to be a Christian, but I decided to follow the teachings of Jesus instead.

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we follow Jesus because we believe that his life, death, resurrection, and teachings offer us the truth about life, strength for the journey, and hope in the face of despair. Following him doesn't change our life situation, but it does change how we look at it and how we live in it.

follow Jesus, not because I think he's going to make me rich or keep bad things from happening to me. I follow him because I believe that in his life he shows me who God is. In his teachings he shows me how to live. In his death he shows me mercy. And in his resurrection he shows me hope. That's why I follow him.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

If some Church dignitaries should misuse religious ceremonies or religious teaching to injure their own nation, their opponents should never take the same road and fight them with the same weapons... To a political leader, the religious teachings and practices of his people should be sacred and inviolable. Otherwise he shouldn't be a statesman but a reformer-if he has the necessary qualities for such a task!

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple. Jesus didn't go around condemning people.

Blessed is the person who has passed the teachings of secrets. That person knows the source of life as well as his goal.

Each religious morality sanctifies its prescriptions by making them originate from revelation; and it tries to impress its teachings on the mind by a promise of reward, or punishment, either in this or in a future life.

Traditional aboriginal teachings seem to suggest that people will always have different perceptions of what has taken place between them. The issue, then, is not so much the search for "truth" but the search for—and the honouring of—the different perspectives we all maintain.

Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories.

When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.