Buddhist Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Simple

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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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• Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Today, Way

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

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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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• It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called "egolessness.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Mean, Ego, Important

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Sep 13, 2013

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• Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.

  Richard Davidson

  Unique, Technology, Practice

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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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• If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you have to do is meditate on your Buddhist master and the light will come into your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Light, Mind

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

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• The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are basically karmic until you're fully engaged in samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Teacher, Roles

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• Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you can live in your home safely. But seeker beware! A fully enlightened Buddhist teacher is an arsonist! His job is to set your spirit on fire...by feeding the flames of your soul with love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Jobs, Home

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• The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Christian, Heaven, Mind

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• Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Yoga, Patterns

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon, the Pali Canon, when we read the Tibetan books, when we read anything inspiring - somebody else's journey into the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Journey, Differences

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• We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it doesn't matter. God's laughing at us; God's laughing at God. We can take a joke too. We're pretty funny.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Laughing, Matter

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• According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Mind, Different

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• Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures] that should ever lead anyone to become intolerant. Our goal as Buddhists is to learn to accept all kinds of people and to help all kinds of people discover the wisdom of the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha

  Hsing Yun

  Teaching, Goal, People

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• My idea for a Buddhist video game: No guns. Self-immolate instead. Get reincarnated. Repeat until you find Nirvana. Takes forever to play.

  Dan Spencer

  Gun, Self, Games

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• The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

  Eric Maisel

  Teaching, Heart, Creativity

  Eric Maisel (2010). “Creativity for Life: Practical Advice on the Artist's Personality, and Career from America's Foremost Creativity Coach”, p.26, New World Library

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