“The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings.” HumansHelpingBodyFormWaterNatureNaturalHuman BeingsBuddhismMountainElementsForestsDesertShieldsAurasBodies Of WaterNatural Elements Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.” PeopleWayInspirationalDifferentSelfSuccessCareersParticularBuddhismTypeInvolvedElementsDiscoverySelf DiscoveryRenunciation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.” SpiritualCertainEnergyPrinciplesWorryToo MuchBuddhismElementsIndianManifestationCosmologySpiritual PowerPranaShakti Author:Frederick Lenz
“You draw the mystical kundalini from the earth. Earth is an element. Fire, air, earth, water, and ether - the mystical kundalini comes through them all.” EarthWaterFireAirBuddhismElementsDrawsMystical Author:Frederick Lenz
“Just as the DNA is a structure of double helical bonds, so your being is a structure of elements, not physical elements, but awarenesses that have come together in a ring of power.” TogetherAwarenessBuddhismElementsStructureRingsDna Author:Frederick Lenz
“As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.” ThinkingMeanSpiritualIndividualEnergyPathBuddhismElementsSimplicityPurityHinduismSpiritual Energy Author:Dave Davies
“If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.” IfsReasonFoundStudyBuddhismElementsInherentFlexibility Author:B. R. Ambedkar
“I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.” IfsThinkingHelpingFoundRealizingChristianityPracticeTeachingBuddhismElementsMethodIslamBuddhistConcreteJudaism Author:Nhat Hanh
“My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out of the practice of poetry, as does my Buddhist practice. Poetry is a very important element in the history of Buddhism in general and in Zen in particular. It was really Zen that motivated me to change the way I perceive the world.” WorldWayDoeImportantSufferingHumanityCompassionPracticeParticularBuddhismMoralityElementsEthicsBuddhistPerceivePoetry IsMotivatedWork Ethic Author:Sam Hamill
“I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.” ThinkingHas BeensSoulPhilosophyBodyHouseStrongImaginationForeverBuddhismElementsDestroyedEnlightenedLinkedStrainReborn Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“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.” GivingMindReasonSoundTeachingBuddhismElementsPhilosophicalCoreCeaseContemporaryInterpretationAcceptableSecularSupernatural Elements Author:Julian Baggini