#buddha

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event. ↗

— Cyndi Lee

#anger #breath #breathing #buddha #buddhism

What we call life...is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are born and they die. 'When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.' This, even dow during this life time, every moment we are born and die, but we continue. If we can understand that in this life we can continue without a permanent, unchanging substance like Self or Soul, why can't we understand that those forces themselves can continue without a Self or a Soul behind them after the non-functioning of the body? ↗

— Walpola Rahula

#buddha-quotes #buddhism #change #circle-of-life #death

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control. ↗

— Ricky Martin

#attack #break #buddha #dalai #dalai lama

All that we are is the result of what we have thought ↗

— Buddha

#thoughts-on-life #life

I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#religion #religion

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#confidence #lamp #community

Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#jesus #mohammed #patanjali #truth #yoga

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#afghanistan #buddhas #destroyed #get #had

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. ↗

— Jena Malone

#acceptable #buddha #friendship #jesus #leaders

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

— Phil Jackson

#ball #buddha #feed #him #lane