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buddhist men would-be
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy. Richard Gere
buddhist temples tunes
I'm someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them. Vera Farmiga
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It is ironic that Mr. Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Mr. Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California. Lamar Alexander
buddhist people parent
One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling, and I was impressed. Around me people were not like that, so I had the desire to be someone like him. I nourished that kind of desire until the age of sixteen, when I had the permission from my parents to go and ordain as a Buddhist monk. Nhat Hanh
buddhist buddhism keys
In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Mindfulness is the base of Buddhist practice
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The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
buddhist love-is compassion
When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
buddhist horse mean
Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.
buddhist truth mean
Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.
buddhism people suffering
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.
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The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others. Pico Iyer
buddhism views somewhere-else
When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here. In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves. Shunryu Suzuki
buddhism empowering getting-what-you-want
Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want. Pema Chodron
buddhism thinking people
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.
buddhism squares suffering
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.
buddhism preoccupation very-powerful
Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations. Pankaj Mishra
buddhism needs way
I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or "You have to do that." Buddhism does not prescribe rituals or prohibitions in the way many religions do.
buddhism pockets followers
The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism. Camille Paglia
keys goal east
It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region. Reza Aslan
keys preparation right-now
Preparation is the biggest key right now. Vince Young
keys people television
What I've figured out how to do is make people feel comfortable on television and on the radio, which enables me to have access to them, which is key for what I do. Ryan Seacrest
keys individuality key-to-success
Individuality' is the key to success. Robert Orben
keys waiting missing
There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined. Sarah Dessen
keys discipline has-beens
Discipline has been a key factor to my success. Rohan Bopanna
keys found wells
I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused, Wil Wheaton
keys want dollars
Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want." Ronald Reagan
keys weak-spots done
The whole key is to be honest with yourself, find the weak spots, work on it, get it done. Wladimir Klitschko