Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Buddhism Quotes, Hinduism Quotes

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Hinduism Quotes

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Interesting Quotes

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Growth Quotes

According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Destiny Quotes

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Men Quotes

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Culture Quotes

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Self Quotes

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Blind Quotes

True love is born from understanding.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Love Is Quotes

I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Book Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Reality Quotes

For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Two Quotes

Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Believe Quotes , Buddhism Quotes