Buddhist Quotes And Sayings – Feel The Essence Of Buddhism

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“The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there’s some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.”
– Pema Chödrön

“We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs – or we don’t. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha‘s opinion, to train in staying open and curious – to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs – is the best use of our human lives.”
– Pema Chödrön

“For the first time in this country, not only innocent people have been killed by public forces but Buddhist monks … have been beaten and have been assassinated.”
– Prince Norodom Ranariddh

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
– Ray Bradbury

“I wouldn’t consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.”
– Richard Davidson

“Certainly there are a lot of people who are interested in the Dalai Lama‘s message who aren’t Buddhists.”
– Rob Boston

“They straddle two worlds. Pope John Paul II often traveled around the world, urging ends to conflicts, or speaking on other topics that were ostensibly secular. So does the Dalai Lama. Certainly there are a lot of people who are interested in the Dalai Lama’s message who aren’t Buddhists.”
– Rob Boston

“The Buddha’s original teaching is essentially a matter of four points — the Four Noble Truths: 1. Anguish is everywhere. 2. We desire permanent existence of ourselves and for our loved ones, and we desire to prove ourselves independent of others and superior to them. These desires conflict with the way things are: nothing abides, and everything and everyone depends upon everything and everyone else. This conflict causes our anguish, and we project this anguish on those we meet. 3. Release from anguish comes with the personal acknowledgment and resolve: we are here together very briefly, so let us accept reality fully and take care of one another while we can. 4. This acknowledgement and resolve are realized by following the Eightfold Path: Right Views, Right Thinking, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Recollection, and Right Meditation. Here “Right” means “correct” or “accurate” — in keeping with the reality of impermanence and interdependence.”
– Robert Aitken

“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”
– Roger Zelazny

“I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.”
– Ron Reagan

“I’d like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.”
– Saigy?

“If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.”
– Sharon Salzberg

“It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view.”
– Sharon Salzberg

“We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”
– Sharon Salzberg

“Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed–Ask for more strength!”
– Shengyan

“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
– Shunryu Suzuki

“Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.”
– Shunryu Suzuki

“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama Buddha

“Attachment leads to suffering.”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama Buddha

“Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama Buddha

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama Buddha

“Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama Buddha

“Through countless births in the cycle of existence. I have run, not finding, although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached.”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama Buddha

“You only lose what you cling to.”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama Buddha

“Even Buddhist priests of the same temple quarrel occasionally.”
– Singhalese Proverb

“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don’t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.”
– Sogyal Rinpoche

“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don’t have to look “over there.” You don’t have to figure anything out. You don’t have to acquire anything. And you don’t have to run off to Tibet, or Japan, or anywhere else. You wake up right here. In fact, you can only wake up right here.”
– Steve Hagen

“If he gives up separatism, he is welcome any time to go back to China and preach (Buddhist) religion.”
– Sun Yuxi

“If they want to get involved, they should know that they don’t have to be Christian or Buddhist or anything like that. We are people caring, so we are like faith, and then there are people that don’t even believe – maybe agnostic.”
– Susie Hibbeler

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