Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You….
And this presence of the Spirit will enlighten not only yellow skin people or white skin people but even black skin people. I believe in the last day….
Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless.
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to….
The incipient magician will confess his faith to a universal religion. He will find out that every religion has good points as well as bad ones. He w….
Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other..
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe..
There is mental conditioning in your mind put in there during this life by your parents, teachers, the society. You've been told what is and what is ….
Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality..
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resistin….
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or o….
I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened….
I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mo….
People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine..
If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some asp….
I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental se….
I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstra….
The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world..
When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own..
I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated ….
Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity….