Buddhism Quote by Steve Hagen Download Open image ““No words—Buddha’s, mine, or anyone else’s—can see for you.”” — Steve Hagen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buddhism Language
“The thing is that this life is so precious and mysterious, I don’t know what to say about it most of the time. Words are like birds, passing through the trackless sky. The dog barking, the sound of the purling stream, the wind among the weeping willow trees: how are these not right off the tongue of the Buddha?" --Lama… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share
“Only when I see myself truly is Gautama Buddha is present in me.” — Gyomay M Kubose Copy Share Image
“To each his own. A billion Buddhas. A billion streams of wisdom. All smiling in their anguish.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
“In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts.” — Lijia Zhang Copy Share Image
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. —The Buddha” — Timber Hawkeye Copy Share Image
“Basically there’s not even one Buddha. There is just great wisdom.” — Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au Copy Share Image
“Love one another." If we took those simple words to heart, we'd already be the Buddhas Jesus wanted us to be.” — Kathleen Dowling Singh Copy Share Image
“Can't you just see all those enlightened monkey men sitting around a roaring woodfire around their Buddha saying nothing and knowing everything?” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Thoughts of some special people are like the stairs, they take you up to the upstairs floors; some are like the wings, they take… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities-yet, for all we know, it might be the… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is not a belief system. It’s not about accepting certain tenets or believing a set of claims or principles. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It’s about examining the world clearly and carefully, about testing everything and every idea. Buddhism is about seeing. It’s about knowing rather than believing or hoping or wishing. It’s also about not being afraid… — Steve Hagen Copy Share
And here we are with our improved human world that we've spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We've improved the… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“Normally, a view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our minds. But… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“One day, soon after the Buddha’s enlightenment, a man saw the Buddha walking toward him. The man had not heard of the Buddha, but… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice. — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“See confusion as confusion. Acknowledge suffering as suffering. Feel pain and sorrow and divisiveness. Experience anger or fear or shock for what they are.… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“If you point out the moon to a cat, she probably won’t look at the sky; she’ll come up and sniff your finger.” — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "over there." You don't have to figure anything out. You don't have to acquire anything. And you don't have to run off to Tibet, or… — Steve Hagen Copy Share
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 part in a range of risk-taking adventures when they were younger, and finally became wise when they reflected upon their lives in old age. There is only one problem.” “Which is?” “Risk-taking is a way to… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share
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, is contraception. I came across someone who articulated very clearly that one of the things which makes our approach to Buddhist practice in regards to sex different these days than it was in Buddhist times, is… — Brad Warner Copy Share
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 through other Tibetan Buddhist lineages. For example [...] Chöd practices gradually merged with pre-existing models of deity yoga, such the Vajrayoginī practices within Nyingma, Kagyü, and Geluk traditions. Fundamental Chöd practices such as those described in… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share
