#buddha

The Buddha referred to married people as “householders.” He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder: Be nice to your spouse, be honest, be faithful, give alms to the poor, buy some insurance against fire and flood . . . I’m dead serious: The Buddha literally advised married couples to buy property insurance. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage #faith

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. ↗

— Mike Norton

#buddha #buddha-nature #buddhism #capitalism #communism

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#buddhas #burning #deep #deeply #destroying

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. ↗

— Dogen

#buddha #color #great #his #mountains

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. ↗

— Phil Jackson

#ball #buddha #feed #him #lane

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do. ↗

— Buddha Gotama

#deception #evil #lies #truth #deception

To be Buddha, or Jesus, to attain the attitude of Gandhi, or Rosa Parks, to follow no one, but to lead, to show others the path of compassion and kindness, to be a leader and not a follower, to have honor and courage; to fear nothing and no one, to create my own path, that is who I am ↗

— Martin Suarez

#create-your-future #create-your-life #enlightenment #gandhi #jesus

Said Buddha to the hot dog vendor, "make me one with everything. ↗

— New York Magazine

#hot-dog #humor-inspirational #humor

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men. ↗

— The Buddha

#inspirational-quote #spirituality #the-buddha #inspirational

A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose. A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss. ↗

— Sal Martinez

#bliss #buddha-nature #buddhism #enlightenment #human-revolution