Original Buddhism Quotes

#1. I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere ... We should forget all about some particular teaching; we should not ask which is good or bad. There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment, in every existence. That is the true teaching.

Shunryu Suzuki

#3. Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities

Frederick Lenz

#4. Honor is not a thing to dismiss or forgotten but a thing to uphold at all time".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#5. One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

Ken Wilber

#6. Life is less about our experience, or the circumstances that occurred, and more about what we extrapolate from those experiences.

Trish Blackwell

#7. A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black leather attire under the excuse that we're going to fight demons, but it's all part of the tone of the piece and the tone of the story.

Katherine McNamara

#8. I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me.
I probably didn't jump twenty feet.

Dashiell Hammett

#9. If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen might have some rules and form, but it would remain formless even though it had rules and form.

Frederick Lenz

#12. We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

Glenn Murcutt

#13. The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity. (217)

Edward Conze

#14. Life to me is a beautiful gift from from AdoShem that should not be wasted but shared with others. Including amazing revelations that are meant to be seen and meant to be told for such a time as this!

Sipporah Joseph

#15. Cowards kill as often as heroes

Peter V. Brett

#16. To just be--to be--amidst all doings, achievings, and becomings. This is the natural state of mind, or original, most fundamental state of being. This is unadulterated Buddha-nature. This is like finding our balance.

Lama Surya Das

#17. People have disliked me. You know, in high school, I wasn't the most popular kid. I wasn't the nerdiest kid. I was kind of in the middle.

Jimmy Fallon

#18. We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in at the same door. - from the preface to 'Demian

Hermann Hesse