Buddhism Quotes · Page 27

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

— Gautama Buddha

I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.

— Goldie Hawn

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.”

— T. Scott McLeod

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

— Christopher Moore

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

— Frederick Lenz

“Contradictory actions is non-religion [adharma] and non-contradictory actions is religion [dharma].”

— Dada Bhagwan

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.

— Rajneesh

“Enlightenment is not a rocket science, it is the pure awareness of something deep within you that is ageless, formless and undefinable.”

— Seema Brain Openers

If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and…

— Frederick Lenz

Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different…

— Frederick Lenz

Sex is a highly personal matter, yet it seems to get more impersonal all the time. How do I feel about sex?…

— Frederick Lenz

The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it's…

— Frederick Lenz

Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't…

— Frederick Lenz

Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That…

— Frederick Lenz

“We take the responsibility for our own enlightenment. We can pray for some help, and we may get it. But the work…

— Darren Littlejohn

Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“Each of our contemporary scholars, nevertheless, adheres to one school of the (above mentioned) teachings. And there are some (even) among the…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“A certain amount of native skill and training can allow many individuals to be fairly successful magicians, achieving a surprisingly high ratio…

— Zeena Schreck

“Rather than going after these walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move…

— Pema Chödrön

I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's…

— Sara Bareilles

“Although a democratic government is founded upon a very simple and natural principle, it always presupposes the existence of a high degree…

— Anonymous

“Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it’s easy to repeat established…

— Sharon Salzberg

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to…

— Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?

— Sogyal Rinpoche

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

— Chuck Close

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

— Lao Tzu

Diet is highly individual. You have to see what your body wants and what is healthy for it.

— Frederick Lenz

There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.

— Frederick Lenz

...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Think of your mind as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it will become.

— Frederick Lenz

In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.

— Frederick Lenz

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

— John Green

I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.

— Frederick Lenz

We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.

— Frederick Lenz

In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.

— Frederick Lenz

In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be.

— Frederick Lenz

Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life.

— Frederick Lenz