Buddhism Quotes
1466 Buddhism quotes by 146 unique authors
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Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.
— Frederick Lenz
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Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life.
— Frederick Lenz
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Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though,…
— Frederick Lenz
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The future is certain for those who follow dharma. Those who don't follow dharma are pushed back again and again into the net of rebirth.…
— Frederick Lenz
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Feel the wind. This wind blows from world to world and from life to death. This is the wind of dharma. Be in love with…
— Frederick Lenz
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You are dharma. You are a wheel. And the wheel of dharma spins.
— Frederick Lenz
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Buddhism is the process of getting to that part of us that is always eternally happy.
— Frederick Lenz
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The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're…
— Frederick Lenz
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Buddhism suggests that you have that choice; you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have an absolute choice…
— Frederick Lenz
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In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.
— Frederick Lenz
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Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.
— Frederick Lenz
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Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became…
— Frederick Lenz
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The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.
— Frederick Lenz
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A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the…
— Nichiren
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That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
— Matthieu Ricard
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The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen,…
— Nevill Drury
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When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
— Richard Gere
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A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and…
— Stanislav Grof
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Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
— Annie Dillard
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If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in…
— Nhat Hanh
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I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
— Herbie Hancock
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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
— Herbie Hancock
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Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.
— Herbie Hancock
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One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
— Herbie Hancock
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I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity…
— Herbie Hancock
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