Buddhism Quote by Mike Scheidt

The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad,…

— Alan Watts

“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

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up…

— Allen Klein

“14. Zen and Nirvana. The beatitude of Zen is Nirvana, not in the Hinayanistic sense of the term, but in the sense peculiar to…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“However, the path itself must eventually be abandoned, just as you abandon a boat when you reach the other shore. You must disembark once…

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

“Nirvana," says Kiai Hwan,[FN#276] "means the extinction of pain or the crossing over of the sea of life and death. It denotes the real…

— Kaiten Nukariya

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In Buddhist thought, enlightenment is understood not as the presence of something but as the absence of something: the permanent extinction in our lives…

— Simon Parke

And whatever the form of your own resurrection, you will arise, driven not by the Great Search, but by your own Great Duty, your…

— Ken Wilber

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types…

— Ajahn Brahm

After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out…

— Eckhart Tolle