Buddhism Emptiness Quotes

#1. It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

Jay Michaelson

#2. Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.

Frederick Lenz

#3. The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.

Frederick Lenz

#4. When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?

Frederick Lenz

#5. There are so many different ways to be poor,

Zadie Smith

#6. In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

Frederick Lenz

#7. The victorious ones have said
That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.
For whomever emptiness is a view,
That one has achieved nothing.

Nagarjuna

#8. Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

Michel De Montaigne

#10. Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you're not actually thinking about any of that stuff, because Buddhism is fundamentally about something that requires no thought.

Karen Maezen Miller

#11. I had never ridden on a Harley that had only two wheels. I'd never ridden on any motorcycle that had only two wheels.

Kristen Ashley

#12. Human beings make terrible gods.

Nnedi Okorafor

#13. And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and provide philosophical models for the betterment of mankind?

E.L. Doctorow

#14. True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#15. We see, at least with intellect, that beyond both true and false is truth; that there is beauty beyond our present views on the beautiful and ugly; that pleasure-pain can now alike be transcended, and that some day we shall truly see that 'form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form'.

Christmas Humphreys

#16. Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.

Frederick Lenz

#17. When Jack Swagger copies my Ankle Lock and Randy Orton does my Angle Slam, it's disrespectful. I didn't come up with the Ankle Lock; Ken Shamrock came up with the Ankle Lock, but I waited until he retired to do the Ankle Lock.

Kurt Angle

#18. Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.

Frederick Lenz

#19. The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.

Thomas Keating