All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others. — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've been practicing Buddhism for a while. So, I call myself a Jew-Bu, because my tribe is still Jew. But my philosophy… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is best understood as a philosophy rather than a religion due to the fact that the Buddhist does not necessarily embrace… — Ed Hindson Copy Share Image
The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha,… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“From the Buddhist point of view, we are each responsible for our own situation, whether we care to admit it or not.… — David Nichtern Copy Share Image
Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me It's less than likely, Move back, Let I breathe Jedi… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
