Buddhism Quotes
To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.
What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.
Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.
You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.
Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and higher imprinting that will lead you into the luminous spheres of awareness.
The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?
We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.
We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.
Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.
In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.
It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.
To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.
There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.
The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.
Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.
There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view.
You exist forever. You've always existed and you'll always exist. You move in and out of bodies like some people in Los Angeles move in and out of houses, every other week, every other lifetime.
There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.
In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in harmony with their environment.
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.
There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.
I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.
In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.
Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.
In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.
There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.
Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is nirvana.
The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.
Beyond this world, beyond other worlds, be they inter-dimensional worlds or physical worlds, there is something else, which is the vast unknown eternity.
Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.
Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way.
Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.