Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's only two classes of people: terrorists and non-terrorists. Terrorists come in every flavour: there are Buddhist terrorists right now killing Rohingya… — Malcolm Wrightson Nance Copy Share Image
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming… — Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Copy Share Image
Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes… — Frederick Lenz 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
Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist. — Jim Coleman Copy Share Image
The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that… — Dogen Copy Share Image
If you think there's an important difference between being a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Muslim or a… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image