Buddhism Fear Quotes

#1. Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must be groomed and controlled. That is the dichotomy that is set up within the human mind, good and evil.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.

Frederick Lenz

#5. When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.

Anonymous

#7. Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

Frederick Lenz

#8. When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of ... Nothing is left but to love.

Alan W. Watts

#9. In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.

Frederick Lenz

#10. To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.

Howard Cutler

#11. So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear that I will one day be annihilated and cease to exist.

Brad Warner

#12. Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

Zeena Schreck

#13. Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Buddhism is more a philosophy for living rather than a religion or dogma - it's about being awake, free from illusions and fear, so that compassion and loving kindness permeates all of our relationships.

Charlotte Kasl

#15. Everyone burns, as the Buddha says, in their own way. Some burn with anger, some with lust, some with a desire for vengeance, some with fear. But inside us burn many fires, not just one. We are legion, we contain a multitude.

John Dolan

#16. Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.

Frederick Lenz

#18. The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.

Francis Harold Cook

#19. Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of assets.

Kentetsu Takamori

#20. Live in joy, in love,
even among those who hate.
Live in joy, in health,
even among the afflicted.
Live in joy, in peace,
even among the troubled.
Look within, be still.
Free from fear and attachment,
know the sweet joy of the way.

Gautama Buddha

#21. The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.

Frederick Lenz

#22. We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#23. 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

#24. In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is raised with fear embedded in their consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

#25. People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Maybe Christ was promoting Buddhism, maybe Buddha wasn't a prophet, maybe the Quran is older than its Prophet, and maybe we shouldn't spend another two thousand years living a lie, just because we fear the truth and the darkness it reveals within us.

Daniel Marques

#27. If there is destruction of hope, there is freedom from gods [lha]; if there is destruction of fear, there is freedom from spirits ['dre, demons].

Machik Labdron

#28. Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.

Frederick Lenz

#29. Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.

Allan Lokos

#30. Do what helps others.
Refrain from harming others.
Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion.
This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas.

Paul R. Fleischman

#31. Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#32. The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

Frederick Lenz

#33. Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.

Frederick Lenz

#34. When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

Frederick Lenz

#35. A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.

Frederick Lenz

#36. Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.

Frederick Lenz

#37. Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that the body must be denied so that the spirit may be elevated. In Buddhism there is no notion that the body is made of inferior matter while the spirit flies free within.

Brad Warner

#38. Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And because we have fear, we fail to fulfill and realize our potential as human beings.

Frederick Lenz

#39. The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns
of fear & jealousy.

Sharon Salzberg

#40. When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other?

Santideva