Buddhism Quotes - page 4

Religion ~The incipient magician will confess his faith to a universal religion. He will find out that every religion has good points as well as bad ones. He will therefore keep the best of it for himself and ignore the weak points, which does not necessarily mean that he must profess a religion, but he shall express awe to each for of worship, for each religion has its proper principle of God, whether the point in question be Christianity, Buddhism, Islam or any other kind of religion. Fundamentally he may be faithful to his own religion. But he will not be satisfied with the official doctrines of his Church, and will try to penetrate deeper into god's workshop. And such is the purpose of our initiation. According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion... (Franz Bardon)
The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency or change. That everything changes is the basic truth for each existence. No one can deny this truth and all teaching of Buddhism is condensed within it. This is the teaching for all of us. Wherever we go this teaching is true. This teaching is also understood as the teaching of selflessness. Because each existence is in constant change, there is no abiding self. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism but to study ourselves. You are not your body. You are the Big Activity. You are just expressing the smallest particle of the Big Activity. That is all. But when you become attached to a temporal expression of the Big Activity, it is time to talk about Buddhism. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
"No self, no problem,” said the Buddhist master when asked to explain the deeper meaning of Buddhism. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others. View quote
Parker Palmer
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind. View quote
Matthieu Ricard
For Buddhism, however, the basic moral law is inherent in life itself. It is a special case of the law of cause and effect, needing neither a divine law-giver nor depending upon the fluctuating human conceptions of socially-conditioned minor moralities and conventions. View quote
Nyanaponika Thera
From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days. View quote
Soko Morinaga
It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
Buddhism is a practice, not a belief, and every Buddhist is, in some way, lay clergy - involved in the way a scientist is involved in his or her work, or in the way a writer's mind is involved in writing, present in the background, all the time. View quote
Francisco Varela
You get somebody to explain the Trinity to you, they'll say "Well God, he's God, and Jesus is God as well, and the Holy Spirit is... [mumbles indistinctly]". "What?" "He's the fecund spirit of the Lord who impregnates Mary, then gets a bit up himself and is reduced to light clerical duties?" Let's examine that in joke form: three male divine natures go into a cosmic essence, giving and receiving love, but not in a gay bishop way, to which the whole of Islam goes "Wha?"; Hinduism: "Nah!"; or Buddhism: "Ssh!". (Bill Bailey)
As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted. View quote
Pema Chodron
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. View quote
Pema Chodron
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss. View quote
Robert Thurman
Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science. View quote
Robert Thurman
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind? View quote
Wade Davis
The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental. View quote
Herbie Hancock
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human. View quote
Herbie Hancock
Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life. View quote
Herbie Hancock
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. View quote
Herbie Hancock
The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to. (Jack Kornfield)
If you know anything about Buddhism, you will know that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to become anything that you are not already. Buddhism is fundamentally about being in touch with your own deepest nature and letting it flow out of you unimpeded. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive. View quote
Dalai Lama
There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. View quote
Dalai Lama