220 Buddhism Quotes

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Famous Buddhism Quotes

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change. — Koo Stark

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. — Thurston Moore

If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion. — B. R. Ambedkar

Buddhas don't practice nonsense. — Bodhidharma

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science. — Robert Thurman

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. — David Sylvian

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama

I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen. — Dogen

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others. — Hugo Black

To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.' — Ajahn Chah

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. — Dalai Lama

Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist. — Ray Wylie Hubbard

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. — Bodhidharma

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being. — Huineng

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace. — Lao Tzu

Short Buddhism Quotes

  • Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
  • The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen
  • If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? — Dogen
  • What you think you become. — Buddha
  • If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. — Pema Chodron
  • On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more! — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
  • Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. — Buddha
  • Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. — Shunryu Suzuki
  • If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. — Buddha
  • Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. — Buddha

Buddhism Image Quotes

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. - Gary Snyder quote

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. — Gary Snyder

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood. - Buddha quote

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood. — Buddha

Anger Buddhism Quotes

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all. — Thich Thien-An

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. — Buddha

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back. — Pema Chodron

Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it. — Frederick Lenz

To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain. — Howard Cutler

Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you. — Frederick Lenz

You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others. — Frederick Lenz

When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being. — Frederick Lenz

Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others. — Frederick Lenz

Ego Buddhism Quotes

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path. — Frederick Lenz

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions. — Matthieu Ricard

You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates. — Frederick Lenz

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection. — Frederick Lenz

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth. — Frederick Lenz

Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection. — Frederick Lenz

Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego. — Frederick Lenz

"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself. — Frederick Lenz

In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics. — Frederick Lenz

The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego. — Frederick Lenz

Emptiness Buddhism Quotes

Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light. — Frederick Lenz

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

When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it? — Frederick Lenz

The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things. — Frederick Lenz

In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness. — Frederick Lenz

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with. — Frederick Lenz

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view. — Frederick Lenz

In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world. — Frederick Lenz

Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything. — Frederick Lenz

You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are. — Frederick Lenz

Buddhism Happiness Quotes

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them? — Buddha

Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy. — Frederick Lenz

By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness. — Matthieu Ricard

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. — Buddha

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. — Matthieu Ricard

In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding. — Frederick Lenz

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. — Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Buddha

With our thoughts we make the world. — Buddha

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. — Nhat Hanh

Zen Buddhism Quotes

Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are. — Taizan Maezumi

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself. — Bernie Glassman

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. — Alan Watts

Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it. — Toni Packer

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. — Buddha

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. — Alan Watts

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world. — Dogen

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. — Buddha

The greatest effort is not concerned with results. — Atisa

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. — Buddha

Buddhism And Christianity Quotes

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can. — Thomas Merton

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist. — Bo Burnham

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

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

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. — Buddha

Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters. — Katha Pollitt

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

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. — Buddha

I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism. — Nicolas Cage

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion. — Erwin McManus

Hinduism And Buddhism Quotes

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism. — Satish Kumar

As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy. — Dave Davies

I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. — Wesley Snipes

…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself. — Robert M. Pirsig

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity. — C. S. Lewis

One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of Catholics who are practicing Yoga and meditation techniques borrowed from Buddhism and Hinduism. So there are these borrowings which I think fertilize the religions. — Ninian Smart

We learn by doing, not just by thinking. So I feel like beyond Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Judaism, or Christianity we need today to think about a global spirituality. We need to make it very personal and transformative for one self, and each other, together for those who are interested. — Surya Das

All of us have to ensure that our future generations lead a life of peace, dignity and mutual respect. We need to sow the seeds of a conflict-free world, and in this endeavour, Buddhism and Hinduism have a great contribution. — Narendra Modi

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think when religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism - as well as Christianity and Judaism - were founded, at that time societies were generally male-dominated. So, therefore this social notion also influenced religion. — Dalai Lama

Tibetan Buddhism Quotes

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac. — David Bowie

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism. — Adam Yauch

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds. — Pema Chodron

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship. — Dalai Lama

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life. — Jet Li

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common. — Sayings

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me. — Sayings

The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy... and also a prolific author. — Nevill Drury

In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined the Buddhist Society. For the most part, people there were either interested in Theravada or Zen Buddhism. There was almost no one into Tibetan Buddhism at that time. — Tenzin Palmo

What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th. It has everything that had been collected in India up until that time. And so on all levels, it's so vast. — Tenzin Palmo

Buddhist Quotes

Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie

Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING, LEARNING was NOT to MAKE MORE MONEY; It was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING. — Hamza Yusuf

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing. — Sakyong Mipham

If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good. — Shantideva

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life. — Dogen

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Confucius

All rising to great places is by a winding stair. - Buddha

All rising to great places is by a winding stair. — Buddha

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. — Dalai Lama

Buddhist Philosophy Quotes

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. — Buddha

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go. — Sheng-yen

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. — Buddha

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. — Buddha

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. — Buddha

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. — Buddha

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. — Buddha

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things. — Akkineni Nagarjuna

From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion. — Swami Vivekananda

The gift of truth excels all other gifts. — Buddha

Buddhist Life Quotes

One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world — Buddha

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. - A. A. Milne

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. — A. A. Milne

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart. — Sakyong Mipham

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. — Nhat Hanh

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings. - Buddha

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings. — Buddha

Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits. — Namkhai Norbu

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life. — Buddha

Mind is everything. What we think, we become. — Buddha

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. — Buddha

The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love. — Jennifer Edwards

Buddha Quotes

In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite. — Milarepa

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing. — Dogen

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. — John Lennon

Putting the gold leaf on the back of a Buddha statue. — Thai Proverbs

So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it. — Norman Geisler

If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed were to bump into each other along the road and go have a cup of tea or whatever, I think we all know they would treat one another far different and far better than a lot of their followers would. — Brian D. McLaren

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. — Buddha

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself — Stephen Levine

The mouth prays to Buddha, but the heart is full of evil. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Who do you think was smarter, Jesus or Buddha? I mean, just in terms of not letting themselves get crucified. — Anthony Jeselnik

Buddhist Meditation Quotes

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

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others. — Milarepa

I'm expressin' with my full capabilities, And now I'm livin in correctional facilities. Cause some don't agree with how I do this, I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist. — Dr. Dre

If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear. — Buddha

In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done. — Milarepa

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. — Nhat Hanh

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by. — Ajahn Chah

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind. — Sakyong Mipham

If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it! — Taisen Deshimaru

Good Buddhist Quotes

Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else — Buddha

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. — Longchenpa

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart. — Hsu Yun

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. — Buddha

If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress. — Buddha

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you. — Buddha

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. — Dalai Lama

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. — Buddha

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good. — Buddha

Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already. — Buddha

Real Buddhist Quotes

There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like the joy of freedom. — Buddha

Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom. — Buddha

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. — Buddha

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. — Buddha

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. — Buddha

The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. — Buddha

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure. — Dalai Lama

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. — Buddha

There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred. — Buddha

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation. — Buddha

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More Buddhism Quotes

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. — Albert Einstein

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind. — Ajahn Chah

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. — Buddha

Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best. — Phyllis Diller

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. — Dalai Lama

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves. — Milarepa

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. — Buddha

All know the way, but few actually walk it. — Bodhidharma

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do. — Buddha

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues. — Sogyal Rinpoche

Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world. — Bertrand Russell

When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought. — Matthieu Ricard

The heart chakra is the central chakra. — Frederick Lenz

Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego. — Karen Armstrong

As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you. — Frederick Lenz

The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The third eye is the center of wisdom, the Agni chakra. — Frederick Lenz

If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them. — Frederick Lenz

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