Buddhist Quotes - Page 34

• I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

  Mike White

  Yoga, Book, Reading

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• Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist
  Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me
  It's less than likely,
  Move back,
  Let I breathe Jedi knight,
  The more space I get the better I write,
  (Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write,
  I need the space to say whatever I like.

  Jay-Z

  Moving, Writing, Knights

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• I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhism, Thinking, Skills

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• Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

  Tara Brach

  Practice, Wake Up, Hey

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• Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.

  Bodo Balsys

  Hands, Meat Eating, Compassionate

  Bodo Balsys (2004). “Ahiṃsā: Buddhism and the Vegetarian Ideal”

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• The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.

  Dennis Merzel

  Confused, Confusion, Mind

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• No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!

  Yogaswami

  Christian, Religious, Heart

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• Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Buddhism, Thinking

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dying, Belief, Moments

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• Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that
  feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

  Dalai Lama

  Christian, Real, Rich Or Poor

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• It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.

  Adyashanti

  Christian, Teaching, Buddhism

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• By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Past

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• In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.

  Francesco Clemente

  Wall, Fall, Years

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• Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.

  John Muir

  People, Needs, May

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• Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Mind, Enlightenment

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• I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul. Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever known.

  Hafez

  Inspirational, Christian, Angel

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• I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always, proudly Sri Lankan.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Islam, Followers, Today

  "Kumar Sangakkara: not many compare to Sri Lanka's selfless statesman" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2015.

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• We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone hears the intelligent sound and moves with thirst to meet it.

  Rumi

  Christian, Mother, Rain

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• Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .

  Aldous Huxley

  Christian, Attitude, Men

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• 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, Philosophical, Buddhism

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

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• 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

  Buddhism, People, Trying

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

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• In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.

  Nhat Hanh

  Country, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Looks, Wanted, Cambodia

  Prince Norodom Sihanouk (2005). “Shadow Over Angkor: Memoirs of His Majesty King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia : from Original Transcript of "The Cup to the Dregs"”

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• I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects

  Duncan Sheik

  Thinking, Practice, Profound

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• Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

  Duncan Sheik

  Inspiration, Practice, Lacking

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