Buddhism Quotes

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.

Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.

Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.

Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?

There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.

This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.

In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.

This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.

The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.

In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.

The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.

The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.

Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.

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.

What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.

This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.

Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.

The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.

The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.

When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down.

How could sexuality be anything but God? It's the creation of life. Life is experiencing itself in endless forms.

It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.

At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just be dead.

The toxic residue of humanity - you have to guard yourself, guard that sensitivity even more heavily because otherwise you can pick up so many pollutants that you'll become more toxic.

When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.

You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.

It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.

We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.

This is a time of great confusion, of great darkness; other networks are slipping in through other dimensional planes. Soon the network of enlightenment will leave this earth.

The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way.

The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods.

Countless forms make up this network. In this world, there are few of us.

Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception

The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation.

There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.

It is not the part of divinity to go to humanity and to modify itself in any shape, manner or form; rather it is up to humanity to make itself available to divinity.

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.

Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.