Buddhism Change Quotes

#1. Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

Mark Epstein

#2. Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

Nick Flynn

#3. Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

Cyndi Lee

#4. Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the end of the universe is as far as the telescope can see.

Frederick Lenz

#5. The Dalai Lama once said that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!' This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Dalai Lama: "If a scientist confirm nonexistence of something we believe, then we have to accept that."
Dan Harris: "So if scientists come up with something that contradicts your beliefs, you will change your beliefs?"
Dalai Lama: "Oh yes. Yes.

Dan Harris

#7. Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Allan Lokos

#8. If your awareness was strong enough, you could change the fate of a whole world without ever leaving your room.

Frederick Lenz

#9. If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.

Sharon Salzberg

#11. Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body; that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting awarenesses. It's like a molecular bond, DNA, a double-helix, and we can change that.

Frederick Lenz

#13. I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual, that change starts with the individual. I think it is really about purifying your own actions, and I have seen that in my own life.

Karan Bajaj

#14. Today's satori:
Such a change of mind would
Not exist without
My lifelong habit of having
My mind immersed in blossoms.

Saigyo

#15. Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have the sense that you can change the way you perceive.

Frederick Lenz

#16. By identifying impermanence as a fundamental characteristic of existence itself, rather than a problem to be solved, the Buddhists are encouraging us to let go our hold on illusory solidity and learn to swim freely in the sea of change.

Andrew Olendzki

#17. Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.

Frederick Lenz

#18. From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change.

Pat Allwright

#19. Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

Sharon Salzberg

#20. You see two people together. They're in a relationship. It's really power that holds those people together. And when the designs of power change, those people will separate and there's nothing they can do in the meantime about it.

Frederick Lenz

#21. All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.

Sharon Salzberg

#23. Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically, then you can change your destiny.

Frederick Lenz

#24. No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window.

Frederick Lenz

#25. You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

Koo Stark

#27. All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#28. Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new.

Frederick Lenz

#29. The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.

Frederick Lenz

#30. When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. That's nonsense.

Frederick Lenz

#31. True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

Dalai Lama XIV

#32. Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.

Sharon Salzberg

#33. The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.

Frederick Lenz

#34. One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.

Frederick Lenz

#35. When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

Gautama Buddha

#36. A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

Daisaku Ikeda

#37. There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.

Frederick Lenz

#38. Don't worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!

Frederick Lenz

#39. If you meditate deeply several times a day you will transform and change. You will find that you don't have to inspire yourself to do what is right because you have become what is right.

Frederick Lenz

#40. To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

Sharon Salzberg

#41. You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.

Frederick Lenz

#42. When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.

Frederick Lenz

#43. Sometimes their immediate reaction is to want to run away because they realize inwardly that the transpositions their life will go through will be remarkable, change everything.

Frederick Lenz

#44. As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.

Frederick Lenz

#45. If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

Dalai Lama

#46. You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.

Frederick Lenz

#47. If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

Dalai Lama XIV

#48. Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

Daisaku Ikeda

#49. Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.

Frederick Lenz

#50. Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#51. In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be.

Frederick Lenz

#52. People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case, ... we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

Bernie Glassman

#53. The more lives you have, the harder it is to change, yet the stronger you are. It's a kind of funny dichotomy.

Frederick Lenz