“Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.” WorldScienceBuddhismBirthBoundsBillionsEndlessKingdomsCyclesAtomsOther WorldsBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation.” PeopleChildrenDoeMomentsDreamRealityAwarenessYouthBuddhismBirthPerceptionConnectedSeparationIsolated Author:Frederick Lenz
“From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.” AwarenessBuddhismBirthPerceptionInfiniteReincarnationFinite Author:Frederick Lenz
“Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.” InspirationalDifferentSoulPlayFilmLife IsWalksRolesStageBuddhismBirthPleaseTheatrePopcorn Author:Frederick Lenz
“You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.” InspirationalHas BeensBuddhismBirthLifetimeWheelsBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?” IfsHumansAgeSchoolSpiritualHuman BeingsPracticeCasesStudyBuddhismBirthEnlightenmentPossessionDharmaSpiritual PracticeEsoteric Author:Dogen
“Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe.” HumansPersonsProblemUniverseCommonAchieveSubjectsBuddhismBirthAll ThingsUniversalBuddhistCyclesEmancipationBirth And DeathTransience Book:Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought Source: Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought
“A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.” MomentsSchoolScienceLeftCuttingBuddhismBirthWaveBoardsThat MomentSurfer Author:Frederick Lenz
“Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.” DoeHas BeensSelfTaughtBuddhismBirthHumankindSense Of SelfMaintenance Author:Frederick Lenz
“The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.” WorldPainSufferingGrowthSpacePleasureConditionsThis WorldBuddhismBirthDecaySpinningPain And Pleasure Author:Frederick Lenz
“We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.” HumansDreamBodyLife IsSufferingHuman BeingsSpaceBuddhismBirthConsciousEternityTime And SpaceBirth And DeathRecurringRecurring Dreams Author:Frederick Lenz
“Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.” SufferingLeftMovementBuddhismBirthOceanWaveAriseShore Author:Frederick Lenz
“Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.” MeanPainSufferingBuddhismBirthEnlightenmentIllusionBirth And DeathLife And TimeIllusion Of Time Author:Frederick Lenz
“Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.” SelfMightSpiritNightRealizingAcceptingMorningBuddhismBirthSpringIdealsConstantWinterProtectionBuddhistInitiativeAttemptingConservatismEvokeFluxPositive ChangeSwept AwayPioneeringSelf ProtectionAccepting ChangeWinter Night Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.” ChildrenLife IsSufferingBuddhismBabyBirthPerpetualSequence Author:Arnaud Desjardins