Buddhism Quotes
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.
This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.
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 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.
There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.
Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?
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.
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.
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.
Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.
This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.
Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened
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.
The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.
Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.
The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.
A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?
The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.
In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars with each other. They destroy each other's identities.
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.
There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.
The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.
A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.
One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god.
To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.
Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you .
Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.
Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.
Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.
Whatever you need will be provided. Eternity takes care of everything perfectly. So never want for that which you do not have; you have exactly what you need.
When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. That's nonsense.
You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.
Trust that life is guiding you and showing you every step that is necessary to learn to be perfect. Have faith in yourself. You'll come through OK. Have faith in existence.
It is possible to exert a power over all things, all beings. But we must begin with intent always.
You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.
In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.
The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.
The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded.
Find a teacher and devote yourself to the study, but in a balanced way, not a fanatical way.
You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic energy because you are not focused.
Throughout the day remind yourself that you are moving through eternity. Be focused. Be centered. Be in the now. Know what is going on in the world. Read a newspaper once in a while.
It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.
It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.
Power plants break up the way you see the world; they can push you into the second attention; yet to continuously take them, weakens the subtle psychical body.
You can detach your attention from yourself and go anywhere. You can wander the universe. Big deal!
Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.