Buddhism Quotes · Page 32

The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

— Dalai Lama

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

— Gautama Buddha

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

— Rajneesh

Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana.

— Frederick Lenz

Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.

— Dogen

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

— Laird Barron

“PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME. WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT ABOUT HAVING A POT TO PISS IN?”

— Terry Pratchett

The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

— Jay Michaelson

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way…

— Frederick Lenz

Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if…

— David O. McKay

“what Tibetan Buddhists call “the inability to bear the sight of another’s sorrow,” so that we feel it almost as intensely as…

— Karen Armstrong

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“The trying to do something is in itself enlightenment. When we are in difficulty or distress, there we have enlightenment.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by…

— Kevin Gates

When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to…

— Frederick Lenz

When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this…

— Hermann Hesse

I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often…

— Shekhar Kapur

“What the radical Enlightenment excluded as implausible based on the principle of analogy, much of today’s world can accept on the same…

— Craig S. Keener

When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market…

— Sakyong Mipham

Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except…

— Frederick Lenz

I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as "I AM." YOU ARE…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we…

— David Brazier

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

— Mark Epstein

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

— Tim Ward

Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.

— Frederick Lenz

Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.

— Frederick Lenz

Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.

— Umar

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

— Frederick Lenz

“Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.”

— Allan Lokos

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

— Matthieu Ricard

More men will continue to attain enlightenment than women, unless women change their use of the second attention.

— Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment comes to the most dull-witted. It begins around the eyes. From there it radiates.”

— Franz Kafka

Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception

— Frederick Lenz

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

— Pat Buckley

The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.

— Frederick Lenz

You can detach your attention from yourself and go anywhere. You can wander the universe. Big deal!

— Frederick Lenz

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

— Helen Keller

Big Sur is a fascinating place. It is one of the true power places in America.

— Frederick Lenz