Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it… — Dalai Lama 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
Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Within the framework of the Buddhist Path, reflecting on suffering has tremendous importance because -realizing the nature of suffering, you will develop… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment. — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When I was little, my parents belonged to a cult, a big Buddhist sect called Soka Gakkai. I didn't have any particular… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions,… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot… — George Patterson Copy Share Image
The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our… — Dhammananda Bhikkhuni Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal… — Je Tsongkhapa Copy Share Image
I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm expressin' with my full capabilities, And now I'm livin in correctional facilities. Cause some don't agree with how I do this,… — Dr. Dre Copy Share Image
Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
