“This is always and inevitably the case. No one gets away with murder. No one gets away with anything. You can't escape… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
All the other religions I had ever read about dealt with the idea of God, and your relationship with God. Buddhism is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
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Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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Sometimes I was too tired, other times just lazy. Now and then, I was frustrated because nothing seemed to be happening -… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Among the educated young there is therefore a startling and unprecedented interest in the transformation of human consciousness. All over the Western… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“But again we must be careful to bear in mind that for Ibn Arabi fana is never absolute annihilation ( the failure… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
“The concept of the trichiliocosm is closely linked with Buddhist theories about time and human destiny. Buddhist thought is generally clouded with… — Akira Sadakata Copy Share Image
I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them. And it can be grand and vast… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are… — Hsin Hsin Ming Copy Share Image
It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“There is one element in Christianity which was not borrowed from Paganism -- religious intolerance. Referring to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, a… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Pagoda are the centre of Burmese spiritual life, and every town and village has one. People visit the pagoda daily or weekly… — Emma Larkin Copy Share Image
Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Last month, Dean Sheeter (whose name usually transports Franny when I mention it) approached me with his gracious smile and bull whip,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“5. Zazen, or the Sitting in Meditation. Habit comes out of practice, and forms character by degrees, and eventually works out destiny.… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“to me a mountain is a buddha. think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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“energy so abundantly that be could talk with a voice sounding as a large bell. Being asked by Wang the secret of… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Christ remains the most influential figure in history. Any list of world-transforming individuals would no doubt include Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad. Moses,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
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“8. Man is not Good-natured nor Bad-natured, but Buddha-natured. We have had already occasion to observe that Zen teaches Buddha-nature, which all… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
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Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
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