The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Fans of different races, castes, ethnicities and religions who together celebrate their diversity by uniting for a common national cause. They are… — Kumar Sangakkara Copy Share Image
I must add, though, that I don't believe making disciples must equal making adherents to the Christian religion. It may be advisable… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Shambhala does have unique teachings, as do many Buddhist traditions. For example, certain teachings within Shambhala have to do with raising the… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light. — Dogen Copy Share Image
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves. — Dogen Copy Share Image
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic… — Howard Fast Copy Share Image
In the Buddhist tradition, where mindful meditation comes from, anger is regarded as a somewhat unhealthy,unskillful emotion because we can be blinded… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
“A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old. His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying… — Swami Vivekananda 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
