Buddhism Quote by Gil Fronsdal Download Open image “One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.” — Gil Fronsdal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buddhism Buddhist Life Life is Religion Seriousness Spiritual Spiritual life
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Whatever exists is inevitably flawed. Buddha, in his detachment from the world, finds all its hustle and bustle ridiculous because he has nothing to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha” means that when you see that you’re grasping or clinging to anything, whether conventionally it’s called… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
When you think of Buddhism, you're likely to think of peace and tranquility. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Generosity is not limited to the giving of material things. We can be generous with our kindness and receptivity. Generosity can mean the simple… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace. — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
Repetition and ritual and their good results come in many forms: changing the oil filter, wiping noses, going to meetings, picking up around the… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
“Vigilant and absorbed in meditation One attains abundant happiness.” — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
“One who does evil is tormented in this life, Tormented in the next, Is tormented in both worlds. Here he is tormented, knowing, “I… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
My mom and my aunties are really devout Christians. My mom married a Muslim when I was 12, so I got teachings from both… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The extraction of discrete parts of Chöd teachings from their broader philosophical contexts is symptomatic of how Chöd has been incorporated into and transmitted… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
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