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
Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
GARY SNYDER
"Buddhist Anarchism", 1961
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
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
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
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