When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The satsang is - within the mass culture - like little mushrooms here and there, and somebody, maybe a Christian and a… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“According to your holy book, every single Buddhist, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, follower of various minor traditions or sects, those who do not… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard I tried, I was incapable of giving more importance to a hypothetical, post-mortem existence than to this very… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“In other words, in their own ways, both systems basically attempt to follow the Buddha in addressing the same fundamental problem of… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat?… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Buddhists believe that everything in life is random. There are patterns that are intrinsic to life. We don't know why, we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It’s… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
