#buddhism

The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them. ↗

— Jamie Muir

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While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. ↗

— Alan Watts

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Buddhism teaches you to embrace change. ↗

— Koo Stark

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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard, never get muddled. They are able to comprehend suffering, and ultimately will understand Dharma. Then, they will understand the books they read. ↗

— Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

#experience #self-knowledge #study #experience

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

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For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#dilemmas #find #individual #may #me

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#explicit #i #implicit #less #make

Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightenment #life-s-greatest-answers #life-s-purpose #living-the-question #meditation