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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad. ↗

— Jet Li

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Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. ↗

— David Sylvian

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Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. ↗

— Thurston Moore

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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

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