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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.Collection: Buddhism
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.Collection: Buddhism
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.Collection: Buddhism
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.Collection: Buddhism
I think when religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism - as well as Christianity and Judaism - were founded, at that time societies were generally male-dominated. So, therefore this social notion also influenced religion.Collection: Buddhism
According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?Collection: Buddhism
If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.Collection: Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.Collection: Buddhism
One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.Collection: Buddhism
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?Collection: Buddhism
If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.Collection: Buddhism
I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.Collection: Buddhism
When you think of Buddhism, you're likely to think of peace and tranquility.Collection: Buddhism
Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.Collection: Buddhism
We can always begin again.Collection: Buddhism
We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.Collection: Buddhism
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.Collection: Buddhism
I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.Collection: Buddhism
Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.Collection: Buddhism
Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.Collection: Buddhism
I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.Collection: Buddhism
Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind.Collection: Buddhism
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.Collection: Buddhism
Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'.Collection: Buddhism
I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.Collection: Buddhism
For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.Collection: Buddhism