Sangha Quotes

• The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Moving, Love Is, Community

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.

  Adyashanti

  Community, World, Sacred

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• In Buddhism, there are three gems: Buddha, the awakened one; Dharma,
  the way of understanding and loving; and Sangha, the community that
  lives in harmony and awareness. The three are interrelated, and at
  times it is hard to distinguish one from another. In everyone there
  is the capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love. So in
  ourselves we find Buddha, and we also find Dharma and Sangha.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhism, Community, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thoughtful

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

  Jeff Bridges

  Mind, Definitions, Way

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• Going for refuge to Buddha,Dharma, and Sangha means that we apply effort to receiving Buddha's blessings, to putting Dharma into practice, and to receiving help from Sangha.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mean, Blessing, Practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.34, Tharpa Publications US

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• I'd say look at the teacher's students. Do you want to be like them? If you see a good and harmonious sangha, and if they're practicing well and are good people with good hearts, then you have a cause for trust.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Teacher, Heart, People

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Buddhist, Attitude

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• Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Order, Worldly Life, Energy

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.

  Shinjo Ito

  Spiritual, Teaching, Community

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.133

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• To be a nun is a very great blessing. It's a great inspiration to think that the Sangha goes all the way back to the Buddha and that so many fantastic, really truly-realized beings have been ordained. Thinking of all those members, such a wonderful, exalted and holy order - I love the Sangha.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Inspiration, Blessing, Thinking

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I've always loved the Sangha. I have the deepest, deepest respect for them. I'm very sorry that in the West people don't appreciate what the monastic order is about.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Sorry, Order, People

  Source: fpmt.org

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• My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Spiritual, Teaching, Journey

  "Beryl Bender Birch: Abhyasa and Avoiding Flying Tomatoes". Interview with Andrea Marcum, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Buddha was a responsible guy and believed in his monks being responsible, their responsibility would no longer be to their practice or to the sangha, but to their child because that's the only honest way to do it. You can't have it both ways. So anytime a monk would have sex, there was always that possibility and it was a very big deal.

  Brad Warner

  Sex, Children, Responsibility

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.

  Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

  Yield, Admiration And Respect, Our Love

  Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1969). “Hindutva; who is a Hindu?”

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• Basically, I want to spend my time in retreat, but to my own amazement, I agreed to help with a project to start a training center for nuns. I agreed because I think it's really very important for the Western Sangha. I don't know how I'm going to help, but it's important.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, Training, Important

  Source: fpmt.org

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