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A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.Collection: Buddhism
A person who has power doesn't seek to challenge others, their battles are within.Collection: Buddhism
Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.Collection: Buddhism
When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.Collection: Buddhism
When you think an angry thought about someone, it's like hitting them.Collection: Buddhism
People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.Collection: Buddhism
Deluded beings think that if they get in a battle with a Zen Master or with a Don Juan, that it's going enhance their life if they win. You can never take power from someone else any more than you can take sunlight.Collection: Buddhism
If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.Collection: Buddhism
You have been imprinted by people in this world who take power from others. Most people drain each other. Or, what is worse, they are draining you right now, psychically!Collection: Buddhism
You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.Collection: Buddhism
In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don't survive.Collection: Buddhism
The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's when you see that the universe is ecstasy, That's when you experience its ecstasy.Collection: Buddhism
If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.Collection: Buddhism
We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.Collection: Buddhism
Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.Collection: Buddhism
We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could ever be like that; and if that's how they feel - that's how it will be.Collection: Buddhism
Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.Collection: Buddhism
In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.Collection: Buddhism
They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.Collection: Buddhism
We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.Collection: Buddhism
In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.Collection: Buddhism
The constraints that humankind has set upon itself are so narrow, so rigid. If you don't wear your clothes one day, they'll lock you up. That's a pretty simple action.Collection: Buddhism
Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion.Collection: Buddhism
When we love others we see our oneness with others.Collection: Buddhism
Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.Collection: Buddhism
Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.Collection: Buddhism
There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away.Collection: Buddhism
Tonight is not the end of the world. This is our hot tip of the evening.Collection: Buddhism
I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.Collection: Buddhism
You may have had countless lives, and many more stretching before you, and what else have you got to do with your time?Collection: Buddhism
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.Collection: Buddhism
The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.Collection: Buddhism
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a thing. There's just is-ness; there's just eternity.Collection: Buddhism
There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.Collection: Buddhism
You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again.Collection: Buddhism
The world is filled with people who understand. I personally value people who don't understand. People who understand have nothing more to learn. People who don't understand have hope. Do you understand?Collection: Buddhism
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.Collection: Buddhism
Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightenedCollection: Buddhism
Who's to say what's right or wrong? The courts and the society can be totally wrong. Nazi Germany, what did they say was the right thing to do? To destroy and burn Jews.Collection: Buddhism
This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.Collection: Buddhism
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.Collection: Buddhism
They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.Collection: Buddhism
Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?Collection: Buddhism
There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.Collection: Buddhism
Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn't define intelligence. An intelligent species survives.Collection: Buddhism
This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.Collection: Buddhism
The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it's fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won't happen in one day.Collection: Buddhism
We live in the dark ages. If an intelligent society can destroy itself in large numbers and places the largest amount of revenues in instruments of destruction, it is certainly not an evolved society or an intelligent society.Collection: Buddhism
This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.Collection: Buddhism