Buddhism Quotes

• If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Believe
  • May
  • Truth

• There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Strong
  • Buddhism
  • Fertility

• And this presence of the Spirit will enlighten not only yellow skin people or white skin people but even black skin people. I believe in the last days the Spirit of God will be poured out in the nations of Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Because Jesus Christ is the Lord. Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Universe. Amen.

  

  Brother Yun
  • Spirit
  • Islam
  • Presence

• A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • Beautiful
  • Philosophy
  • Catholic

• Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless.

  

  Edward Conze
  • Religion
  • Buddhism
  • Brainless

• Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Author

• What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Present

• Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Great
  • May
  • Future

• There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Mind
  • Buddhism
  • Phrase

• Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become so interested in Buddhism, Zen and so on? I seem to have a Buddhist voice in my head, and someone asked me about this recently, saying he was intrigued.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Why
  • Voice
  • Buddhist

• Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'.

  

  George Pattison
  • Obligation
  • Mortality
  • Exposed

• Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Relationship
  • Spirit
  • Buddhism

• One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • True
  • Interesting
  • Desire

• The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Understanding
  • Christian
  • Teaching

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

  

  Milarepa
  • Suffering
  • Buddhism
  • Fangs

• I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Pain
  • Scream
  • Buddhism

• The only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Death
  • Old Age
  • Descriptions

• The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Believe
  • Nature

• I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental sense of conflict between something that I am calling 'Buddhism' and my creative impulse.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Life
  • Creative
  • Order

• I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they don't understand what's going on. They've been exposed to a contemporary Christian idea that sex itself is evil and bad, which I'm not so sure was Jesus' idea. For me, the Buddhist approach isn't that sex itself is evil or bad but that sex is neutral. It's the way you do it that can problematic.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Christian
  • Sex
  • Idea

• I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that compared to the more modern spirituality, the West Coast pseudo-Buddhist thing that people go for these days, actual Buddhism and Islam have been looking at these philosophical questions, at really hard questions, for a long time. There's a lot of stuff that philosophy doesn't talk about, and in the secular world, a lot of times, people don't talk about these ideas, and that was always really interesting for me.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy

• If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Modern

• 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
  • Business
  • Peace
  • Religious

• 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
  • Buddhism
  • Phrases
  • Actuality

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