BUDDHISM QUOTES III

quotations about Buddhism

Okay, but why use Buddhism? Because Buddhism is focused right on you, right on your experience in this very moment. You are the center of attention. You are the one who makes Buddhism real. And Buddhism can help make you real, too.

FRANZ METCALF

Buddha in Your Backpack


It's an ugly woods, I was saying to myself, padding along a trail where other walkers had broken ground before me. And then I found an extraordinary bouquet. Someone had bound an offering of dry seed pods, yew, lyme grass, red berries, and brown fern and laid it on the path: "nothing special," as Buddhists say, meaning "everything." Gathered to formality, each dry stalk proclaimed a slant, an attitude, infinite shades of neutral.

MARY ROSE O'REILLEY

The Barn at the End of the World


To say that Buddhist principles such as dependent origination, emptiness, and suchness are impersonal does not mean that Buddhism is indifferent to human affairs. On the contrary, Buddhism as a religion is essentially concerned with the salvation of humankind.

MASAO ABE

Zen and the Modern World


She believed that the Buddhists were right--that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve.

ANNE LAMOTT

Crooked Little Heart


In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

MASAO ABE

Zen and the Modern World


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.

YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE

Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom