Quotes About Teachings

Buddhism is a religion of the heart. Only this. One who practices to develop the heart is one who practices Buddhism [...] Use your heart to listen to the Teachings, not your ears.

The realization is the result of the Master's grave more than teachings, lectures, meditation, etc. They are only secondary aids, whereas the former is the primary and the essential cause. 1935jan07

***(C)(P) I WILL SAY THIS WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY:-I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS THE CONTEXT AND MEANINGS BEHIND EVERY REGGAE SONGS MADE BY BOB MARLEY, PETER , BUNNY, AND OTHERS FROM OUR TRENCH TOWN REGGAE FAMILY.NO ONE ELSE CAN SAY THAT.I SHARED MANY OF MY LYRICAL TEACHINGS WITH THEM AND LIVED THE EXPERIENCES. WHO WOULD DARE TO CONTEST ME?

the greatest of their teachings has been the importance of looking to the forest itself for answers.

There is no seer or anything seen / no speaker or anything spoken / the appearance of buddhas and also their teachings / are merely what we imagine 44. Those who view such things as real / they don't see the Buddha / nor do those who imagine nothing / only those who transform their existence.

THREE QUALITIES ENABLE people to understand the teachings: objectivity, which means an open mind; intelligence, which is the critical faculty to discern the real meaning by checking the teachings of Buddha; and interest and commitment, which means enthusiasm.

ACCORDING TO THE Latin root of the word, 'religion' would mean 'to bind again'. Now how does the concept of binding or tying up come to be applied as the common term for all our various teachings? The common enemy of all religious disciplines, the target of all moral precepts laid down by the great teachers of mankind, is selfishness of mind. For it is just this which causes ignorance, anger and passion which are at the root of all the troubles of the world.

Muhammad's example must have had a lasting effect on his early followers: as Nabia Abbott has shown, throughout the first two centuries of Islam, Muslims regularly read the Torah alongside the Quran. Certainly

Notwithstanding his somewhat dodgy family values, Jesus' ethical teachings were—at least by comparison with the ethical disaster area that is the Old Testament—admirable; but there are other teachings in the New Testament that no good person should support. I refer especially to the central doctrine of Christianity: that of 'atonement' for 'original sin'. This

The teachings of 'moderate' religion, though not extremist in themselves, are an open invitation to extremism.

we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.

Il?ml? dinin öÄŸretileri, kendileri a??r?c? olmamalar?na raÄŸmen, a??r?c?l??a aç?k bir davetiyedirler.

Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the author challenges that the theologian is not to correct the notebooks of the biblical writers like some high school teacher. Instead, our theology is always subject to what THEY say, as we willingly submit our notebooks for their approval.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.

The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.

His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.