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  • According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Attachment Quotes
  • Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Believe Quotes
  • If beings knew, as I know, the results of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their gifts without sharing them with others, nor would the taint of stinginess obsess the heart and stay there. even if it were their last and final bit of food, they would not enjoy its use without sharing it, if there were anyone to receive it
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    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Heart Quotes
  • The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Equality Quotes
  • Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
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    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Believe 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
  • The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Karma Quotes , Buddhist Quotes
  • I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Good Life Quotes