Answer Quote by Harry Dean Stanton

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that…

— Quentin S. Crisp

You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into…

— Frederick Lenz

“According to Zen Buddhists, all things have their existence in The Void. The Void is that which is no-thing, but contains all things within…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you’re not actually thinking…

— Karen Maezen Miller

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Enlightened consciousness is often called Buddha-nature, as it is the real nature of Universal Spirit. Zen teachers compare it with a precious stone ever…

— Kaiten Nukariya

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

— Miyamoto Musashi

Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.

— Frederick Lenz

“You associate with living beings by frequenting their migrations. Yet your mind is liberated from all migrations. Just as the lotus, born of mud,…

— Vimalakurti

“The basic Buddhist teaching of impermanence (Pali: anicca) suggests that even the most powerful spiritual experiences come and go like clouds in the sky.…

— Jonathan Landaw

The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and…

— Frederick Lenz

Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness."

— Dalai Lama