Quotes of: Buddhists Keyword

I'm a Buddhist and active in my Buddhist's Association, and I'm actually a National Young Women's representative for the organization, so I travel a lot helping young women who are practicing Buddhism.

Vinessa Shaw

This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.

The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

The Buddhist Way Of Life

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

... the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and that there is a path to that cessation.

The Journey of One Buddhist Nun: Even Against the Wind

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

Living Dharma: Teachings of Twelve Buddhist Masters

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk

...the Chöd teachings attributed to both rely and innovate on Buddhist representations of mental functionings of a human being, including the onto-epistemological trope of the Universal Base Consciousness [ālaya-vijñāna] and the psycho-ethical tr...

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

...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

Solid Ground: Buddhist Wisdom for Difficult Times

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

John Burdett

First, contrary to popular belief, Buddhists can actually be very anxious people. That’s often why they become Buddhists in the first place. Buddhism was made for the anxious like Christianity was made for the downtrodden or AA for the addicted. It...

Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

In fact, no form of death places a greater burden on society than suicide, for the act of suicide is the way a person seeks to resolve his alienation from a cooperative society.

Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician

Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?

The Buddhist Way Of Life

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World

How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here and now, and karma and rebirth are the means of treading it.

The Buddhist Way Of Life

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.

The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom