In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is …

- Masao Abe

To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's p…

- Masao Abe

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

- Masao Abe

Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spiri…

- Masao Abe

When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather,…

- Masao Abe

Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe a…

- Masao Abe

When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell.

- Masao Abe