Buddhism Quotes Page 2

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.

There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube.

There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the head, but it is not connected.

There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and that surrounds the physical.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity .

.. I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

Focus your awareness on the heart chakra.

As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body.

Your heart chakra is not in your physical body.

It is in your subtle physical body, but it comes in contact with your physical body in this location.

The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest.

Hold your right or left hand out. Now say "Me" and, as you do so, touch your chest. You will automatically touch your heart chakra.

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

Practice meditating on the heart chakra.

This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

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.

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

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

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

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.

After two or three sessions of meditating on your heart chakra, it will no longer be necessary for you to physically touch your chest. You will sense the spot automatically.

For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra.

The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in Sanskrit, is located in the center of the chest, dead center. If you focus there you will feel a warm and tingling sensation.

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

If you try to pull too much power through too soon, you will injure yourself.

While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead.

With our thoughts we make the world.

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.

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

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.