1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

We love them those who shown their care to us, We Love them who respect us. We Love them, who help us. But if we don't give all these to them how will they love us, how will they care us. Lets start loving people, respect people, protect them. Help people if need

When you do good, let it be good in line with nature. Don't latch onto the thought that you're good. If you get attached to the idea that you're good, it will give rise to lots of other attachments.

...it was Buddhism that inspired the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, and, through him, attracted Richard Wagner. This Orientalism reflected the struggle of the German Romantics, in the words of Léon Poliakov, to free themselves from Judeo-Christian fetters.

[A] being is nothing but a combination of physical and mental forces or energies. What we call death is the total non-functioning of the physical body. Do all these forces and energies stop altogether with the non-functioning of the body?

Manopubbangama dhammamanosettha manomayamanasa ce padutthenabhasati va karoti vatato nam dukkhamanveticakkamva vahato padam.

Медитация, говорил он, учит полагаться на собственные силы и находить счастье в самом себе, особенно в сложные периоды жизни. Умение полагаться на собственные силы — это очень важная часть безбожной буддийской вселенной.

When we discover Zen practice, we may hold out a hope that it is going to solve our problems and make our life perfect. But Zen practice simply returns us to life as it is. Being our lives more and more is what Zen practice is about. Our lives are simply what they are, and Zen helps us to recognize that fact. The thought "If I do this practice patiently enough, everything will be different" is simply another belief system, another version of the promise that is never kept.

A great Zen master said just before he died, "From the bathtub, to the bathtub, I have uttered stuff and nonsense." The bathtub in which the baby is washed at birth, the bathtub in which the corpse is washed before burial, all this time I have said much nonsense.

We must admit that very often we are afraid or ashamed to look at our own minds. So we prefer to avoid it. One should be bold and sincere and look at one's own mind as one looks at one's face in a mirror.