Quotes and Sayings About Buddhist
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
-- A. A. Milne -
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
-- Abel FerraraSource : Interview by Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
-- Aberjhani -
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
-- Adyashanti -
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Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
-- Ajahn Chah -
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Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.
-- Ajahn Sumedho -
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
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All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
-- Alan Ball -
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
-- Alan Ball -
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.
-- Alan Watts -
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
-- Alan Watts -
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
-- Alan Watts -
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.
-- Alan Watts -
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.
-- Albert Ellis -
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Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
-- Alcee Hastings -
I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of people who I really loved.
-- Alley Mills -
NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)
-- Anne Lamott -
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Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such satisfaction with ourselves is not the same as contentment. Contentment is necessary, self-satisfaction is detrimental. To be content has to include knowing we are in the right place at the right time to facilitate our own growth. But to be self-satisfied means that we no longer realize the need for growth. All these aspects are important parts of our commitment and makes us into one whole being with a one-pointed direction.
-- Ayya Khema -
Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
-- Ayya Khema -
In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.
-- Bankei Yotaku -
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We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own
-- Barack Obama -
I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
-- Barbara Olson