Buddhism Quotes - Page 26

• What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th. It has everything that had been collected in India up until that time. And so on all levels, it's so vast.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Taken, India, Levels

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• Most of the spiritual traditions were very theistic and the idea of an external god pulling the strings didn't resonate with me. I then discovered Buddhism and found the perfect path. I felt so grateful to the Buddha for having given the path, and not just explaining the end result, but showing so clearly how to get there.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Spiritual, Grateful, Ideas

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• The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for really practicing Buddhism. At a certain point, as with learning any skill, we need personal instruction from someone who is more advanced than us.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Book, Thinking, Skills

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• The point with Buddhism is that it doesn't just tell you to be good, it tells you how. It doesn't just say, "Don't be angry," it shows us the methods to help us not to be angry. It gives techniques for everything that it advises us to cultivate, and all the negative qualities we need to overcome and transform.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Giving, Quality, Technique

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• Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to transcend our ordinary conventional mind. This takes an enormous amount of determination and perseverance. It also requires an attitude of being relaxed and spacious, rather than tense and stressed. It's certainly not a matter of lying back and expecting it all to happen. If we don't make it happen, it won't!

  Tenzin Palmo

  Perseverance, Determination, Attitude

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• Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general view of the feminine was rather misogynistic, with women playing the role of the forbidden other, waiting to pounce on innocent little monks! In that society, it was hard for women to become educated and get the deeper teachings and really become accomplished.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Book, Teaching, Views

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• Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Meaningful, Ego, Mind

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• When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother, "I'm a Buddhist!" She said, "That's great. Finish reading the book and then you can tell me all about it." From that moment on I knew I was a Buddhist.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mother, Buddhist, Book

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• All the other religions I had ever read about dealt with the idea of God, and your relationship with God. Buddhism is the only religion that deals with man himself and the nature of the mind - how to deal with yourself and your condition, here and now, as opposed to having to deal with something outside yourself.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Men, Ideas, Mind

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• In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined the Buddhist Society. For the most part, people there were either interested in Theravada or Zen Buddhism. There was almost no one into Tibetan Buddhism at that time.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Buddhist, People, Littles

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• Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

  Peter Buffett

  Kindness, Greed, And Love

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• I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Struggle, Form, Aspect

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• What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Imagination, Focus, Important

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• I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Strong, Philosophy, Thinking

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• The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Peculiar, World, Here And Now

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• There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Strong, Fertility, Aspect

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• If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Mean, Dwelling, Imagination

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• Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become so interested in Buddhism, Zen and so on? I seem to have a Buddhist voice in my head, and someone asked me about this recently, saying he was intrigued.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhist, Voice, Mystery

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• I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Book, Writing, Creativity

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• I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Cutting, Rejection, Mountain

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• I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental sense of conflict between something that I am calling 'Buddhism' and my creative impulse.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Order, Creative, Littles

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• People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Creativity, People, Wish

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• I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract entities such as Buddhism. To me, anyway, the entity in my life that conflicts with my creativity is Buddhism.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Mean, Creativity, People

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• Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Expression, Rejection, Hemisphere

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• The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Philosophy, Reading, Suicidal

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