Buddhism Quotes - Page 32

• I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

  S. N. Goenka

  Speech, Vipassana, Firsts

  26 Copy quote

• Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beautiful, Oysters, Christianity

  "The Chronicles of Clovis". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1911.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

  Josei Toda

  Goal, Fundamentals, Realization

  36 Copy quote

• The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Warrior, Accomplishment, Dancing

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.14, Bottom of the Hill

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Philosophical

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.151, ReadHowYouWant.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Strong, Cases

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.17, Univ of California Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Buddhist, People, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2368, Manonmani Publishers

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Giving, Students

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

  Robert Thurman

  Discovery, Years, Realizing

  17 Copy quote

• Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

  Robert Thurman

  Reality, Systematic, Pursuit

  25 Copy quote

• Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found in the expression Buddha Dharma, and dharma as 'reality-as-is' (abhigama-dharma). The teaching is a verbal expression of reality-as-is that consists of two aspects-the subject that realizes and the object that is realized. Together they constitute 'reality-as-is;' if either aspect is lacking, it is not reality-as-is. This sense of dharma or reality-as-is is also called suchness (tathata) or thatness (tattva) in Buddhism.

  Taitetsu Unno

  Teaching, Reality, Expression

  4 Copy quote

• I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!

  Mary Daly

  Islam, Derivatives, Sin

  40 Copy quote

• Pure and simple, balance is happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Simple, Balance, Pure

  4 Copy quote

• Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Loss, Views, Upset

  4 Copy quote

• Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Trying, Use

  4 Copy quote

• The concept (of happiness) is universal. In Buddhism, it is called causeless joy, in Christianity, the kingdom of heaven within, and in Judaism it is called ashrei, an inner sense of holiness and health. Is Islam it is called falah, happiness and well-being, and in Hinduism it is called ananda, or pure bliss.

  Marci Shimoff

  Happiness, Joy, Heaven

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Insecure, People, Waiting

  16 Copy quote

• There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, People, Feminist

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.292, Penguin Books India

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christ remains the most influential figure in history. Any list of world-transforming individuals would no doubt include Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad, however occupy totally different places in Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam than Christ occupies in Christianity. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad never professed to perform miracles; indeed they never claimed to be anything more than men. They viewed themselves simply as God's messengers. Christ is the only person in history who has defined a whole religion around his person.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Jesus, Men, Miracle

  7 Copy quote

• I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.

  Dalai Lama

  Humans, Promoting, Human Values

  11 Copy quote

• Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  10 Copy quote

• I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

  Patrick Duffy

  Years, Wife, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief; not to believe stupidly, or to rely only on people, textbooks, conjecture, reasoning, or whatever the majority believes, but rather to believe what we see clearly for ourselves to be the case. This is how it is in Buddhism.

  Buddhadasa

  Buddhist, Believe, People

  45 Copy quote

• Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Law, Taoism

  "Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 19, 1961.

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Ethical Principles, Harm, Cardinals

  7 Copy quote