The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a doctor who offers a course of therapeutic treatment to heal...

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance,...

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.

The Amida Buddha delivers those who recognize their own weakness and cowardice… Those who admit their own faults and above all, those who believe… A wholehearted trust in Amida Buddha gives peace of mind to those who’ve known despair. Even the most vicious and evil of sinners will attain salvation and be reborn in paradise…...

I was there!”-surely that is the answer to God’s question. For no matter how the universe came into being, most of the atoms in these fleeting assemblies that we think of as our bodies have been in existence since the beginning. Each breath we take contains hundreds of thousands of the inert, pervasive argon atoms...

13. A Buddha In Tokyo in th Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha’s precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o’clock in the morning. The other teacher, Tanzan, a professor of philosophy at the Imperial University, never observed...

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself,No one can purify another.

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don’t stand up to experimentation, Buddha’s own words must be rejected.

Every living thing is sacred to me. Compassion and love can heal this world, which is set on fire of violence and hatred. I will teach the world about compassion, and end the suffering by halting these floods of sorrow. Said Prince Siddhartha and began his journey of saving the man kind.” ,

Buddha had said to make a light of yourself, and if Laurie had anything to say about it, one day he’d glow.

When we are turning the prayer wheel, we are requesting (Buddha) to send more healing light to change the energy on the planet.

Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and compassion come only when one is able to forgive even those who have committed barbaric acts. If Angulimala is capable of renouncing...

ALWAYS BE HAPPY IS NOT IMPORTANT , WHAT IMPORTANT IS TO FIGHT THE STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES US HAPPY OR UNHAPPY !!

I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I’d go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn’t want it.

Love one another.” If we took those simple words to heart, we’d already be the Buddhas Jesus wanted us to be.

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he’s against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.

1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people in India who are predominantly Hindu. And 65% of Japan’s 127 million people claim to be non-believers. It is laughable to suggest that none of these billions of people are leading meaningful lives.2....

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..

The world is big enough,and the Possibilities are huge , so pack the bag and get lost.

Embrace nothing:If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.If you meet your father, kill your father.Only live your life as it is,Not bound to anything.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

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

Zen is the period of time during which a person has true clarity of vision.

The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.

How deaf and stupid I have been, he thought, walking on quickly. When anyone reads anything which he wishes to study, he does not despise the letters and punctuation marks, and call them illusion, chance and worthless shells, but he reads them, he studies and loves them, letter by letter. But I, who wished to...

Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus? In...

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

In your big mind, everything has the same value…In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood

If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.

So it is with the mind, Nandini. Allow it to be in balance. Avoid extremes: the middle way is better. Neither force the mind too hard into concentration nor let it wander aimlessly. Meditation is to pay attention, to be aware of your breathing, your posture, your feelings, your perceptions, your thoughts, and all that...

Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115)

Said Buddha to the hot dog vendor, “make me one with everything.

Stories are masks of God.That’s a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother’s Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.Stories can also trivialize. Offered...

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.

Are we all searching for something that has been always their

True love is born from understanding.

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince’s son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence....

When you dig a well, there’s no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow,” said Buddha.

All together—move!

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.