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By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not cont...

The Buddhist Way Of Life

When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about...

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

Richard Gere

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

Joan Baez

It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.

Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society

A maggot is just another life form.

Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician

And this is a Buddhist country?” said Matt, “This is a country of lovingkindness and compassion? Hah. I think the Americans would call this ‘tough love.’ ” “That is the paradox of Buddhism,” said Ranjit, “As a young doctor I would see...

The Sacrament of the Goddess

Against The Stream is more than just another book about meditation. It is a manifesto and field guide for the front lines of the revolution. It is the culmination of almost two decades of meditative dissonance from the next generation of Buddhists in...

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Even Buddhist priests of the same temple quarrel occasionally.

Senegalese

I read of a Buddhist teacher who developed Alzheimer's. He had retired from teaching because his memory was unreliable, but he made one exception for a reunion of his former students. When he walked onto the stage, he forgot everything, even where he...

Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World

Death for [the Buddhist] is the shadow on the face of life, for the opposite of death is birth, not life; that which is born must die. Life has no opposite, for life goes on; only its forms must change unceasingly. It is life which creates, uses and ...

The Buddhist Way Of Life

Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden

I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.

A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

The Buddhist Way Of Life

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World

Chöd is conventionally and misleadingly seen as analogous to, if not derived from, shamanic initiatory dismemberment visions, as well as dualistic anti-body ascetic practices. Two of the elements most commonly referenced by authors in their "identif...

Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

The Buddhist Way Of Life

I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

Clint Eastwood

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries