"Buddhist" Quotes . Top 25 Short Quotes About "Buddhist"

"I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point."

--- Abel Ferrara

#Buddhist #Catholic

"An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour."

--- Aberjhani

#Buddhist #Outrageous #Love

"Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!"

--- Abhinavagupta

#Buddhist #Awareness #Reality

"In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Buddhist #Daily Buddhist #Feels

"The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians."

--- Adyashanti

#Buddhist #Christianity #Christ

"It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living."

--- Adyashanti

#Buddhist #Followers #Awakened

"Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass."

--- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Buddhist #Abuse #Way

"The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off."

--- Ajahn Amaro

#Thinking #Buddhist #Cutting

"Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires."

--- Ajahn Brahm

#People #Recognise #Buddhist

"Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing."

--- Ajahn Chah

#Buddhist #Walks #Enlightened

"When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by."

--- Ajahn Chah

#Buddhist #Thai #None Of Your Business

"If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate."

--- Ajahn Chah

#Buddhist #Havens #Feelings

"The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed."

--- Ajahn Sumedho

#Buddhist #Adaptability #Flexible

"Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words."

--- Ajahn Sumedho

#Thinking #Buddhist #Reality

"All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things."

--- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#Buddhist #Essence #Philosophy

"The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening."

--- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#People #Buddhist #Sin

"There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still."

--- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#Buddhist #Stills #Worldly

"Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love."

--- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#Buddhist #Moments #Bowls

"I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple."

--- Al Gore

#Realizing #Temples #Buddhist

"I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'"

--- Alan Ball

#Buddhist #Belief

"I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist."

--- Alan Ball

#Buddhist #I Believe #Believe

"If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world."

--- Alan Watts

#Buddhist #Awareness #Actually Living

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."

--- Alan Watts

#Buddhist #Religion #Made

"Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them."

--- Alan Watts

#Buddhist #Awareness #Life

"Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image."

--- Alan Watts

#Buddhist #Dew #Conception

25 "Buddhist" Quotes