We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist,… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no"… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of… — Gail Mazur Copy Share Image
Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong. — Bodo Balsys Copy Share Image
From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
You are a part of everything. You are like the guys in the bar and that gal on the corner with the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Buddhists and Taoists of the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan share the same roots and instructions and have always maintained sound… — Jia Qinglin Copy Share Image
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What… — Frederick Lenz 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
The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Jewish Buddhist consuming the views of Christianity. Wonder if Hindus like to eat fish soup. If it's true, they should hit Alaska… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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