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buddhism hands knives
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same. Alan Watts
buddhism loyal revolution
Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.
buddhism law ideas
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
buddhist nonsense notes
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.
buddhist fun positivity
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
buddhist memories real
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
buddhist morning reflection
Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.
buddhist belief
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.' Alan Ball
buddhist believe i-believe
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
looks world eternity
He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less. Charles Caleb Colton
looks world way
Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next. Charles Spurgeon
looks may helping
The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.
looks sin
He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.
looks worship ifs
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
looks world environment
Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
looks plant gardener
A good gardener looks at every plant every day. Alan Chadwick
looks want mental-health
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.
looks taste devils-advocate
Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow. Al Pacino
weapons tools negotiating
Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit Earl Butz
weapons sometimes wounds
Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes. Cher
weapons changing-environment dinosaurs
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons. Arthur C. Clarke
weapons
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. Samuel Butler
weapons human-nature realizing
When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature. Dianne Feinstein
weapons needs construction
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves. Walter Benjamin
weapons mein-kampf willpower
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower. Adolf Hitler
weapons sophisticated defeated
The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. Abu Bakar Bashir
weapons junk defeated
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated. Aldrich Ames