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“The Buddha lived close to nature and anymals, and exemplified compassion. Buddhist practice is rooted in ahimsa, metta, and karuna, and the first Buddhist precept prohibits killing. Buddhist philosophy teaches that harming other living beings is inimical to the spiritual life because we cannot avoid harming our own future through acts of cruelty due to reincarnation and karma. Buddhist philosophy also teaches that there is no independent self; we are part of an interconnected and interdependent universe. Anymals are inherently worthy of our respect and care; in light of years of reincarnation, they are our loved ones. Buddhist morality and practice requires human beings to actively strive to help anymals, and to fearlessly protect every sentient and suffering being.”

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Book:Animals and World Religions
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“As long as we practice with a vow to help others, we are the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, and we become the leading figure in the Heart Sutra, whether we are a layperson or are ordained, whether celibate or married, living in the monastery or living in secular society.”

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Book:Thunderous Silence: A Formula for Ending Suffering: A Practical Guide to the Heart Sutra
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“Buddha’s teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently. ... For Buddhists, faith in Buddha Shakyamuni is their spiritual life; it is the root of all Dharma realizations. If we have deep faith in Buddha we shall naturally develop the strong wish to practise his teachings. With this wish we shall definitely apply effort in our Dharma practice, and with strong effort we shall accomplish permanent liberation from the suffering of this life and countless future lives.”

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Book:Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom
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“There is a wealth of source material concernig Gotama Buddha, far more than for (Confucius or Jesus Christ, for example. The problem thus becomes one of selection. There are also, as Erich Frauwallner has pointed out, far more historical facts available for the Buddha than for his near contemporaries, the Greeks Thales and Pythagoras. There can be no doubt concerning the cxistence of the person who advocated the unique thought that we attribute to him.”

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Book:Gotama Buddha
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“The Buddha taught that meditation, combined with the observance of a moral code and the development of wisdom, is the path to enlightenment. Through meditation, Buddhists strive to experience what the Buddha experienced — loss of self and ego, the ability to see things as they really are, and the self-transformation that goes with the attainment of enlightenment. Meditation therefore offers potential for personal growth, spiritual advancement through the conquest of psychological obstacles, and the possibility of greater happiness. This partly explains the great surge of interest in Buddhism in the Western world in the second half of the 20th century.”

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Book:The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia : Buddhism
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“I take refuge until I am enlightened In the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. By the positive potential I generate Through studying these teachings, May I attain buddhahood for the benefit of all.”

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Book:Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on Atisha Dipamkara Shrijnana's A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment and Lama Je Tsong Khapa's Lines of Experience
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“Matter,” Vittoria repeated. “Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks. A miniature universe springing to life. He proved not only that matter can be created from nothing, but that the Big Bang and Genesis can be explained simply by accepting the presence of an enormous source of energy.” “You mean God?” Kohler demanded. “God, Buddha, The Force, Yahweh, the singularity, the unicity point—call it whatever you like—the result is the same. Science and religion support the same truth—pure energy is the father of creation.”

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Book:Angels & Demons
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“Imagine an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Chinese and an Indonesian all looking at a cup. The Englishman says, ‘That is a cup.’ The French-man answers, ‘No it’s not. It’s a tasse.’ Then the Chinese comments, ‘You are both wrong. It’s a pei.’ Finally the Indonesian man laughs at the others and says ‘What fools you are. It’s a cawan.’ Then the Englishman get a dictionary and shows it to the others saying, ‘I can prove that it is a cup. My dictionary says so.’ ‘Then your dictionary is wrong,’ says the Frenchman, ‘because my dictionary clearly says it is a tasse.’ The Chinese scoffs; ‘My dictionary says it’s a pei and my dictionary is thousands of years older than yours so it must be right. And besides, more people speak Chinese than any other language, so it must be a pei.’ While they are squabbling and arguing with each other, a another man comes up, drinks from the cup and then says to the others, ‘Whether you call it a cup, a tasse, a pei or a cawan, the purpose of the cup is to hold water so that it can be drunk. Stop arguing and drink, stop squabbling and refresh your thirst.’ This is the Buddhist attitude to other religions.”

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Book:Good Question Good Answer
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“While the founder [of any religious or spiritual system] was still walking among his followers and disciples, the latter did not distinguish between the person of their leader and his teaching; for the teaching was realized in the person and the person was livingly explained in the teaching. To embrace the teaching was to follow his steps - that is, to believe in him. His presence among them was enough to inspire them and convince them of the truth of his teaching... So long as he lived among them and spoke to them his teaching and his person appealed to them as an individual unity. But things went differently when his stately and inspiring personality was no more seen in the flesh... The similarities that were, either consciously or unconsciously, recognized as existing in various forms between leader and disciple gradually vanished, and as they vanished, the other side - that is, that which made him so distinctly different from his followers - came to assert itself all the more emphatically and irresistibly. The result was the conviction that he must have come from quite a unique spiritual source. The process of deification thus constantly went on until, some centuries after the death of the Master, he became a direct manifestation of the Supreme Being himself - in fact, he was the Highest One in the flesh, in him there was a divine humanity in perfect realization... Indeed, the teaching is to be interpreted in the light of the teacher's divine personality. The latter now predominates over the whole system; he is the centre whence radiate the rays of Enlightenment, salvation is only possible in believing in him as saviour.”

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Book:Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series
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“Now Harry,” she began, “Magic is in itself a form of religion, but there are powerful beings who can be considered as gods and goddesses. Herne the Hunter, Morrigan, Cernunnos, Epona are a few British deities just like Odin, Thor, Zeus, Hera, Isis, Osiris, etc. are deities of other times and countries. Even the more modern gods like the Christ, Buddha, Allah, etc. are powerful beings or representations of the ‘Uncaused Cause’ as the creator of all things is sometimes called.”

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Book:Sorry About That Harry
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“From the eras of Buddha (and Mahavir) we find the reference of monk life. Rishis or Munis were family men. They used to achieve the Supreme Cult within their family lives. Astabakra Sanghita has mentioned so wonderfully about family man and non-family man. He has mentioned that those who have lust and desire, they are family men and those who are devoid of any lust and desire, they are non-family men.”

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Author:Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
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“From the eras of Buddha (and Mahavir) we find the reference of monk life. Rishis or Munis were family men. They used to achieve the Supreme Cult within their family lives. Astabakra Sanghita has mentioned so wonderfully about a family man and non-family man. He has mentioned that those who have lust and desire, they are family men and those, who are devoid of any lust and desire, they are non-family men.”

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Author:Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
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“All life has suffering. But to live is to suffer. So we bless life, we bless death, we bless sickness and health, we bless happiness and sadness. We say om mani padme hum to bless all suffering borne by all beings, as the suffering is our karma. And our karma is our life.”

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Book:A Story of Karma: Finding Love and Truth in the Lost Valley of the Himalaya
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“The dog is a poor animal, innocent. There is nothing wrong in the dog. Perhaps he has to travel a long way to become a buddha, but it is only a question of time. Some day a dog is also going to become enlightened. In some birth, somewhere in the future ... You should understand it clearly that in the eternity of time it does not matter whether you become enlightened today, or tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, in this life or in another life. In the eternity of time it does not matter at all. In the eternity of time nobody is ahead and nobody is behind, because there is no beginning in time and there is no end in time.”

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Author:Osho
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“Und an dem Tag, an dem die Seele sich selbst erkennt, beginnt ein neues Leben, eine Neugeburt. Solange die Seele sich nicht selbst erkannt hat, entwickelt sie sich nicht, sie wächst nicht. Deshalb beginnen die Menschen in dem Moment, in dem die Seele anfängt, sich selbst zu erkennen, wirklich in der Welt zu leben. Wir sollten aber begreifen, dass der Magnetismus einer selbstverwirklichten Seele größer ist als alle Magnetismen, die man sich jemals vorstellen könnte. Er ist Macht. Er ist Weisheit. Er ist Friede. Er ist Intelligenz. Er ist alles. Dieser Magnetismus heilt. Er heilt Körper und er heilt Herzen. Er erhebt jene, die in Schwierigkeiten, in Leid und Sorgen versunken sind. Er befreit andere aus ihrer Verwirrung, ihrer Dunkelheit. Durch diesen Magnetismus verbreiten die erleuchteten Seelen ihre Liebe und gewinnen dadurch alle Lebewesen. Diesen Magnetismus meinte Christus, als er zu den Fischern sagte: „Folgt mir, und ich werde euch zu Menschenfischern machen.“ Durch diesen Magnetismus kamen die Großen wie Buddha, Moses, Christus, Mohammed und gewannen die Gunst der Menschheit. Und die Menschheit hat das all die Jahrhunderte hindurch nicht vergessen. Es ist deren Magnetismus, der, auch nachdem sie die Erde verlassen hatten, Millionen und Abermillionen Menschen in einem Bund der Geschwisterlichkeit, Sympathie und Freundschaft zusammenhielt. Die immense Kraft, die der Seelenmagnetismus verleiht, beweist, dass er ein göttlicher Magnetismus ist. Er ist ein Beweis für etwas hinter der sichtbaren Welt. (S. 173)”

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Book:Heilung aus der Tiefe der Seele: Mystik und geistige Heilung
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