Top buddhist Quotes Collection - Page 2
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MRA is the good road of an ideology inspired by God upon which all can unite. Catholic, Jew and Protestant, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and Confucianist - all find they can change, where needed, and travel along this good road together.Collection: Buddhist
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.Collection: Buddhist
To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed.Collection: Buddhist
It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.Collection: Buddhist
All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.Collection: Buddhist
My religion is to live and die without regret.Collection: Buddhist
If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.Collection: Buddhist
Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and othersCollection: Buddhist
In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.Collection: Buddhist
If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it!Collection: Buddhist
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.Collection: Buddhist
Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their attempts at self-development. These are not results, but only rearrangements of psychic material, a process the Buddhists call 'samsara' and which our Holy Bible calls 'dust'.Collection: Buddhist
We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.Collection: Buddhist
If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart, I could really see you.Collection: Buddhist
We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.Collection: Buddhist
If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible.Collection: Buddhist
Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve.Collection: Buddhist
Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others.Collection: Buddhist
Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.Collection: Buddhist
Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.Collection: Buddhist
Gymnasts, lazy people, complainers and successful people have all practiced to be what they are good at. So if you keep practicing being lazy, you will be lazy. If you keep practicing complaining, you will constantly complain. If you practice compassion, generosity, patience, working hard and having a bigger vision, you will become better at it with time because you will create the causes to become better. You are practicing to become better.Collection: Buddhist
What you are today is the choice you made yesterday.Collection: Buddhist
A persons outer action reflects their inner mind.Collection: Buddhist
The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.Collection: Buddhist
Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.Collection: Buddhist
Don't call for a revolution, but look at yourself honestly and create an evolution.Collection: Buddhist
The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose.Collection: Buddhist
When others put you down for who you are or what you're doing, it just means that you're going in the right direction.Collection: Buddhist
Complaining is another way of saying to others, YOU SOLVE THE PROBLEM.Collection: Buddhist
The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.Collection: Buddhist
The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.Collection: Buddhist
The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.Collection: Buddhist
It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.Collection: Buddhist
There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.Collection: Buddhist
When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.Collection: Buddhist
My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out of the practice of poetry, as does my Buddhist practice. Poetry is a very important element in the history of Buddhism in general and in Zen in particular. It was really Zen that motivated me to change the way I perceive the world.Collection: Buddhist
The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.Collection: Buddhist
The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.Collection: Buddhist
Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past.Collection: Buddhist
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.Collection: Buddhist
I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.Collection: Buddhist
After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!Collection: Buddhist
It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.Collection: Buddhist
What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains.Collection: Buddhist
I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of people who I really loved.Collection: Buddhist
He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.Collection: Buddhist
Sitting still is a pain in the ass.Collection: Buddhist
I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'Collection: Buddhist