Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I came to California in 1970 and so many people were asking if I was a Buddhist or knew Zen theory, asking… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Gymnasts, lazy people, complainers and successful people have all practiced to be what they are good at. So if you keep practicing… — Tsem Tulku Copy Share Image
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act according You are like a cowherd counting others' cattle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted… — Dave Wakeling Copy Share Image
While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release -… — Gautama Buddha 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
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
I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with… — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
Since we became Buddhist, we have lived in peace with them. We did not invade them. We did not want them to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out… — Longchenpa Copy Share Image
Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
You've gained some powers by your entrance into other dimensions and you use them to attack others or to make others miserable,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
