Best practice & buddhist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.”

Ifs Way Practice Offers Capacity Wake Up Hey Buddhist Vulnerability Discomfort

Author:Tara Brach

“Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.”

Way Mind Mean Energy Simple Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Gains Complicated Buddhist Variety

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.”

Ifs Want Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Accomplish Buddhist Ecstasy Twins

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.”

Mind Brain Known Practice Technology Meditation Century Unique Inspired Buddhist Holiness Collaboration Precise Monk Buddhist Monk

Author:Richard Davidson

“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.”

Real Desire Choices Practice Ignorance Expression Buddhism Infinite Fruit Available Buddhist Recognition Vulnerability Affliction Scope Buddha Nature Infinite Potential Wrong Or Right

Book:The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

“The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.”

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Author:Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between your career and your religious practice.”

Mind Success Religious Careers Break Practice Buddhism Paid Buddhist Religious Practices

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.”

People Body Success Energy Deals Careers Practice Buddhism Yoga Buddhist Theme Conservation Components Monasteries Energy Conservation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that world, from all the teachers and all the adherents of the practices and the principles.”

World Mind Long Order Force Principles Practice Teacher Mindfulness Draws Enlightenment Connected Buddhist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.”

Way Form Practice Alive Buddhism Series Buddhist Awake Etiquette Way To Live

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.”

Ifs Important Self Levels Practice Support Possibility Buddhism Discovery Deserve Seeking Self Discovery Buddhist Supportive Etiquette What's Important

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.”

Ifs Trying Spiritual Practice Buddhism Buddhist Etiquette Obsessive Spiritual Practice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.”

Self Practice Honesty Buddhism Buddhist Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice.”

Ifs Doe Important Easy Practice Buddhism Deserve Critical Buddhist Supportive Etiquette What's Important Respect Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.”

“What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.”

Ifs Knows Looks Matter Eye Fun Quality Practice Buddhism Enlightenment Seeking Buddhist Having Fun What Matters Improving Etiquette Pathways Reassurance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to respond to beauty, and to respond to difficult circumstances with patience, with a sense of calm, with clarity.”

Difficult Practice Buddhism Circumstances Calm Clarity Buddhist Etiquette Difficult Circumstances

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.”

People Done Success Used Careers Practice Meditation Buddhism Exercise Computer Structure Buddhist Computer Science Monasteries

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation.”

Mind Science Deals Practice Meditation Computer Concepts Buddhist Computer Science Simultaneous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.”

Life Is Practice Illusion Essence Excited Buddhist Perceive Cosmology Being Cool

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice.”

People Helping Enjoy Church Practice Buddhism Aspect Buddhist Temples Cosmology Robes Incense Shaved Head

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways, the practices, they make changes that are just intelligent changes that adapt to a new century, a new culture.”

Way Persons Different Age Culture Born Practice Land Century Intelligent Buddhist Enlightened Making Changes Cosmology New Cultures

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Helping Found Realizing Christianity Practice Teaching Buddhism Elements Method Islam Buddhist Concrete Judaism

Author:Nhat Hanh

“In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.”

Ifs Action Culture Spirituality Opportunity Left Practice Darkness Support Goodness Buddhist Realms Offering Monk

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I've noticed that the more flooding there is, the more bullshit gets talked. I mean it was very noticeable in the Asian tsumai. It happened around Christmas-New Year. The Muslims of Sri Lanka said 'We knew this would happen because the Christians were using alcohol for their Christmas celebrations.' The Buddhists said 'We knew this would happen because of the horrible Muslim slaughter practices.' It's amazing to see how apocalypse or catastrophe makes people behave primitively.”

People Years Mean Said Happens Christian Practice Happened Alcohol Horrible Buddhist Behave Celebration New Year Bullshit Catastrophe Apocalypse Asian Slaughter Flooding Sri Lanka

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered in Buddhist terms - Buddhist practice being part of Ko Un's background. Ko Un writes spare, short-line lyrics direct to the point, but often intricate in both wit and meaning. Ko Un has now traveled worldwide and is not only a major spokesman for all Korean culture, but a voice for Planet Earth Watershed as well.”

“Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.”

Important Ideas Suffering Practice Meditation Perception Notion Buddhist Buddhist Meditation

Book:Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way

Source: Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way

“At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience.”

Thinking Levels Practice Our Lives Research Conviction Dues Buddhist Guarantees Positive Experiences

Author:Dalai Lama

“If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.”

Ifs Lost Sides Compassion Practice Special Example Method Violent Destroyed Buddhist Resorts Detachment Love And Compassion Monasteries

Author:Dalai Lama

“The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.”

Practice Speech Buddhist Prohibition

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

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