Buddhism Quotes - Page 33

• As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Suffering

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• No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Hate, Character

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• One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Peaceful, Mind

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• Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Kindness, Hate

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• No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Character, Accomplishment

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• If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Heart, Compassion

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• The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Kindness, Hate

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• In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Dark, Use

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• Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Blessed, Light

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• Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Hate, Compassion

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• I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Islam, Hinduism

  Letter to Sheldon Vanauken on December 14, 1950. "Sleuthing C.S. Lewis: More Light in the Shadowlands". Book by Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, p. 393, 2001.

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• You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

  Florence Nightingale

  Growth, East, Sufi

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.13, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

  Pema Chodron

  Country, Strong, Culture

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• A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests that their makers were acquainted with what lay behind the flowering of the Sufi movement in High Asia and so sought to add further dimensions to their garden scenes.

  Russell Page

  Men, Garden, Japan

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• I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

  Phyllis Diller

  Philosophy, Meditation, Numerology

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• As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

  Pema Chodron

  Culture, Adapted, Moved

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• How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.

  Wang Wei

  Greed, Suffering, Path

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• When people ask the Dalai Lama, "Is Buddhism a religion?" he answers, "Yes, it is." Then they ask, "What kind of religion is it?" He responds, "My religion is kindness." You might think, "Everyone's is." Everyone's is. That's true. It's not complicated to describe the goal of a spiritual life. It's easier than you think to explain it. It's more difficult than you can imagine to do it.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Spiritual, Kindness, Thinking

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• I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Practice, People

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• Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Ideas

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• Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Mind, Enlightenment

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• All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them all-inclusive. They are symbolic representations of something that lies beyond the world of thought and analysis.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Lying, Trying

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• The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Light, Knowing

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• When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Other Worlds, Knowing

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• Higher meditation is not taught through techniques or words. The real meditation experience is taught inwardly. You shift a person through different dimensional planes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Real, Meditation

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