Quotes about buddhism
buddhism feelings bed
To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism. Shunryu Suzuki
buddhism purpose study
The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.
buddhism views somewhere-else
When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here. In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves.
buddhism understanding different
My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. Tony Blair
buddhism quitting i-quit
I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating. Tiger Woods
buddhism track unhappy
Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.
buddhism conscious rhythm
In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious Tina Turner
buddhism thinking trying
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. Sam Harris
buddhism hinduism modern
Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism. Swami Vivekananda
buddhism growth branches
Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!
buddhism men errors
They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here. Thomas Carlyle
buddhism buddhist denies far scriptures west
The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned. Annie Besant
buddhism built colors designs elaborate entire help history levels light monument people stages tells temple
Two colors of light to symbolize stages in Buddha's life, just as different levels in the monument symbolize different stages in his life. The temple tells the entire history of Buddhism through its elaborate designs and sculptures. I wanted my design to help tell the story of the temple and the story of the people who built it.
buddhism einstein finds form lie lotus obsessed people playing position pure reach relativity sitting solution sudden suddenly zen
The self-refinery of Buddhism does not lie in the form of exercise. Not all people sitting in a lotus position can reach real Zen - if they are obsessed by desires. Instead, a pure heart, even during subconscious action, can get sudden enlightenment and the real Zen. It's like Einstein suddenly finds a solution to Relativity when playing violin.
buddhism understanding principles
There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework. Richard Davidson
buddhism people want
Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and want more, or have questions that their state of prosperity is not answering. Pankaj Mishra
buddhism preoccupation very-powerful
Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.
buddhism thinking self
Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.
buddhism thinking people
I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.
buddhism needs way
I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or "You have to do that." Buddhism does not prescribe rituals or prohibitions in the way many religions do.
buddhism islam derivatives
I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself! Mary Daly
buddhism tradition dalai
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others. Pico Iyer
buddhism impact enormous
Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me. Richard Gere
buddhism thinking who-i-am
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them. Uma Thurman
buddhism islam different
I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. Wesley Snipes
buddhism order heaven
Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism , Christianity , and Islam , and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism . For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live. Ursula K. Le Guin
buddhism important different
The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions. Thomas Keating
buddhism men doe
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity. Victor Hugo
buddhism might jazz
I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism. Herbie Hancock
buddhism practice reason
Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.
buddhism support vision
One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
buddhism years humanity
I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.
buddhism humanness-is challenges
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.