Quotes About Buddhism Religion

#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. Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

Franklin Foer

#3. 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

#4. I think when religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism - as well as Christianity and Judaism - were founded, at that time societies were generally male-dominated. So, therefore this social notion also influenced religion.

Dalai Lama

#5. Buddhism, he thought, is a clean religion. You never heard about how eight people - two of them children - just got blown the fuck up as part of the long-standing conflict between Buddhists and whoever.

Scott Hawkins

#6. Buddhism: a violent religion that has compensated for the exploding human population by causing whole species of animal vessels to go extinct.

Bauvard

#7. Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

Noah Levine

#8. Think about it for a second:
Babies are not born prejudice, they are not racist,they don't hate, they don't judge, and are not born believing in christianity, buddhism, sikhism, hinduism, judaism or any other ism.
We, as adults, teach them all these things.

Steven Aitchison

#9. Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

Brian D. McLaren

#10. When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

Zeena Schreck

#11. Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Thurston Moore

#12. I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious.

David Brazier

#15. How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

Gautama Buddha

#16. The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

Suman Jyoty Bhante

#17. Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Dalai Lama

#18. My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

Milarepa

#19. It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

Abhijit Naskar

#20. Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.

Sukhraj S. Dhillon

#21. 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

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

Kentetsu Takamori

#23. And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion
well, that would be zero.

Eric Bolling

#24. Allah protect us,' Bold said politely. Then, in Arabic, 'In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.' In his years in Temur's army he had learned to be as much a Muslim as anyone. The Buddha did not mind what you said to be polite.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#25. Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and want more, or have questions that their state of prosperity is not answering.

Pankaj Mishra

#27. Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.

Abhijit Naskar

#28. Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

Sharon Salzberg

#29. Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano.

Kentetsu Takamori

#30. I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!

Mary Daly

#31. America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

Parker Palmer

#32. That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

Satish Kumar

#33. This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Stephen Batchelor

#34. 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

#35. One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god.

Frederick Lenz

#36. I'm not even sure that Buddhism is a religion really. It seems like more of just a spiritual practice, I'd compare it more to Taoism than religion.

Sienna McQuillen

#37. If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Albert Einstein

#38. I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.

Bjork

#39. Om was there in the existence, when no religion was formed or founded. It will be there in the existence, if all the religions are demolished.

Banani Ray

#40. Buddhism is not a religion, but rather a way to finding happiness.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#41. At the last stages of the journey, there's no journey at all.

Jay Michaelson

#42. This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.

Nick Love

#43. Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard.

Anonymous

#44. Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

Jay Michaelson

#45. A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

William Winwood Reade

#46. It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

Suman Jyoty Bhante

#47. When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Gautama Buddha

#48. What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.

Kentetsu Takamori

#49. As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

Dalai Lama

#50. The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#51. There's no path to liberation that doesn't pass through the shadow.

Jay Michaelson

#52. Bliss and suffering, it seems, always go hand in hand.

Kentetsu Takamori

#53. Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind.

Dalai Lama

#54. We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn't cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly 'unnatural' way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.

Jay Michaelson

#55. George used to say that Granny wasn't a time-optimist, she was a time-atheist, and the only religion she believed in was Do-It-Later-Buddhism.

Fredrik Backman

#56. Buddhism, it seemed, was a rational religion, whose truth-claims could withstand the test of reason.

Stephen Batchelor

#57. It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.

Frederick Lenz

#58. Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.

Peter Kreeft

#59. Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.'
Sam held out his hand. Give me some tobacco and a paper.

Roger Zelazny

#60. Whilst on the subject of the spread of Buddhism in the West, I want to say that I have noticed some tendency towards sectarianism amongst new practitioners. This is absolutely wrong. Religion should never become a source of conflict, a further factor of division within the human community.

Dalai Lama XIV

#61. 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

#62. What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

Jay Michaelson

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

Alan W. Watts

#64. ... the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#65. Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses.' Buddhism,

John Green

#66. The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.

Julian Baggini

#67. It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem strange or unusual - in the same way that Christianity and Judaism may seem strange and unusual to people from the Far East.

Frederick Lenz

#68. Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.

Kentetsu Takamori

#69. The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.

Swami Vivekananda

#70. I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

Erwin McManus