#buddhism

I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree. ↗

— Saigyō

#buddhism

I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering, stomach-churning insecurity of being alive. The standard subjects of history, geography, mathematics, and English seemed perversely designed to ignore the questions that really mattered. As soon as I had some inkling of what 'philosophy' meant, I was puzzled as to why we were not taught it. And my skepticism about religion only grew as I failed to see what the vicars and priests I encountered gained from their faith. They struck me either as insincere, pious, and aloof or just bumblingly good-natured. (p. 10) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#buddhism #education #design

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

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time. ↗

— Andy Wachowski

#buddhism #fascinated #interesting #long #long time

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of. ↗

— Jack White

#any #base #buddhism #child #completely

I believe in Buddhism. Not every aspect, but most of it. So I take bits and pieces. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#believe #bits #bits and pieces #buddhism #every

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#cycles #death #describes #determines #incarnation

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#healing #new-beginnings #spirituality #unknown #life

Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #fear #love #psychology #spirituality

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #kindness #change