To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength.… — Anonymous 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
We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't try to do this by yourself: to become a good yogi you need a teacher. Find a teacher you can bow… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“This is what the path of Dharma is like. It's not that you have to do all the practices. It is sufficient… — Dhomang Yangthang Copy Share Image
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive… — Dogen Copy Share Image
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“...those who succeeded the Voltaires, the d'Alemberts, & the Diderots at the head of the movement when these giants died, & who… — William Doyle Copy Share Image
Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“You cannot simply take a mala from someone else and start using it. When you buy a mala you have to make… — Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche Copy Share Image
There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
“Another aspect inviting contemplation is the fact that the affective tone of any feeling depends on the type of contact that has… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
“The Buddha encouraged his followers to never accept what was put to them as truth by anyone else without scrutiny or skepticism.… — David Carlyle 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
“Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries—which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
“For the Stoics, however, the near impossibility of becoming a sage is not a problem. They talk about sages primarily so they… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Wonderful-Voice is told not to think less of this world, our world, just because it is full of mud, stones, and impurities. … — Ryusho Jeffus 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
“Dissociation (being split-off from one’s deepest truth) mimics enlightenment – but it isn’t enlightenment. People who are dissociated live in great peace.… — Daniel Mackler Copy Share Image
When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Suzuki: We must keep one thing always before our minds, . . . which is, that Buddhist thought is always the outcome… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The ways to find one’s way to Enlightenment are many. There is prayer and fasting, and some try that to great effect,… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“We blame the majority of the world on everything, and then we expect to feel safe inside a religious group. It is… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“In the mid-1990s, while serving as senior editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, I proposed a thought experiment to test whether Buddhism… — Clark Strand Copy Share Image
People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The path I chose was the path that most people ignored because of fear, anxiety and their strongly held belief in lack… — Simon Quperlier Copy Share Image
“You're right [Joshua], I have taught you nothing. I could teach you nothing. Everything that you needed to know was already there.… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“To seek the self, one must first have a clear idea of what one is looking for. Thus, some meditation manuals advise… — Donald S. Lopez Jr Copy Share Image
“One of the basic ideas of the evangelical movement in the early nineteenth century was that people could help themselves. Rather than… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
![“You're right [Joshua], I have taught you nothing. I could teach you nothing. Everything that you needed to know was already there. You simply needed the word for it. Some need Kali and Shiva to destroy the world so they may see past the illusion to divinity in them, others need Krishna to drive…” quote by Christopher Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/690/christopher-moore-353_buddhism_you-re-right-joshua-i-have-taught-you-no_314308.jpg)
