Buddhism Quotes · Page 143

“Patanjali, Buddha, Moses and Jesus did not go to workshops or seminars or even churches. They went directly to nature: sat under…

— Dolores Lachapelle

Enlightenment does not come by reading many books, obtaining multiple academic degrees, meditating and starving the body under an ancient tree or…

— Prem Tihan

Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her…

— Frederick Lenz

“Destructiveness cannot bring happiness; destruction is against the law of creation. The law of creation is to be creative. So Buddha says…

— Osho

It's good to visit Hawaii if you're seeking power. You don't really need to live here. Just to come over for a…

— Frederick Lenz

It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see,…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“Suppose a man threw into the sea a yoke with one hole in it, and the east wind carried it to the…

— Gautama Buddha

We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think…

— Richard Rohr

When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything,…

— Anonymous

. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of…

— Bodhidharma

Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive…

— Jacob Needleman

“Experience can be a very bad teacher, indeed, or not teacher at all. It is like the silly phrase, “Practice makes perfect.”…

— Sydney J. Harris

There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a…

— Tilda Swinton

“If your son has grown up and talks back at you, realize that he is your ‘thermometer’ (gauge). Where can you get…

— Dada Bhagwan

“No Moses, Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, Nanak, Plato, Socrates or Naskar can give you liberty. No Bible, Vedas, Quran, Republic, Meditations, Analects or…

— Abhijit Naskar

In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side…

— Dalai Lama

“Real Buddhism is not really an “ism.” It’s a process, an awareness, an openness, a spirit of inquiry—not a belief system, or…

— Steve Hagen

“In sum, passing over to Buddhist spiritual practice has taught me, and can teach my church, that all our words, whether in…

— Paul F. Knitter

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has…

— Huston Smith

“Death, according to Buddhism, is the cessation of the psycho-physical life of any one individual existence. It is the passing away of…

— Nārada, Maha Thera

“The spiritual life (adhyatma-jivana), the religious life (dharma-jivana) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite…

— Śrī Aurobindo

“The rest of us, not chosen for enlightenment, left on the outside of Earth, at the mercy of a Gravity we have…

— Thomas Pynchon

“It is our earth I don’t know if any of you have noticed, early in the morning, the sunlight on the waters.…

— J.Krishnamurti

According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward…

— Deepak Chopra

“Many people who have an interest in politics feel they should proclaim—loudly, and at any given time—what their views are and why…

— Victoria Stoklasa

“We are like the poor son and the Buddha is like the rich father.  We may feel no connection, or we may…

— Ryusho Jeffus

“Hans W. Frei argues that the Enlightenment period was liable for a significant portion of the eclipse of the biblical narratives. In…

— Michael Matthews

Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for…

— Robert Thurman

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

“What was clear, however, was that the Buddha was born male, then cut off all his hair one day and got enlightened,…

— Laurie Frankel

“What are the path of love and the path of meditation? There are basically two different paths to enlightenment. These two paths…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or…

— Gautama Buddha

When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with…

— Frederick Lenz

“When we are meditating in a haunted graveyard, or even in our rooms, frightening external and internal appearances may arise during Chöd…

— Zongtrul Losang Tsöndru

In transmitting the dharma, there is neither explanation nor teaching; there is neighter hearing nor attainment. Since explanations never really explains, nor…

— John Daido Loori

“I, Milarepa, fear neither demons nor evils; If they frightened Milarepa, to what avail Would be his Realization and Enlightenment? Ye ghosts…

— Garma C.C. Chang

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This…

— Richard Matheson

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

Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about…

— Joan Osborne

“Buddhism also throws new, and I believe fuller, light on an oft-quoted passage from John’s Gospel: “Unless a grain of wheat falls…

— Paul F. Knitter