Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Buddhism Quotes, Growth Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Growth Quotes

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Spring Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

True love is born from understanding.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Teaching Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , People 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Reality Quotes

Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Hands Quotes

Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

Conquer the angry man by love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Men Quotes

The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Believe Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Light Quotes

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

I think when religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism - as well as Christianity and Judaism - were founded, at that time societies were generally male-dominated. So, therefore this social notion also influenced religion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Buddhism Quotes

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Siddhartha Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Self 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

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