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  • Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , People Quotes
  • Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the death of the brain and the death of heart. Different parts of the body can die separately. However, in the Buddhist system, the word death is not used in that way. You'd never speak of the death of a particular part of the body, but rather of the death of an entire person. When people say that a certain person died, we don't ask, "Well, which part died?"
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Heart Quotes
  • At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Christian Quotes , Buddhist Quotes