It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.
Sulak SivaraksaTags: buddhism diversity pluralism
Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.
Daniel J. SiegelTags: buddhism psychology mindfulness
What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.
Kentetsu TakamoriTags: buddhism belief religion spirituality japan
Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.
Kentetsu TakamoriTags: wisdom life buddhism belief religion faith spirituality
Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of assets.
Kentetsu TakamoriTags: buddhism religion japan temples
Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word "faith," feeling that it has no connection to them. But we all have faith. Broadly speaking, "faith" does not apply only to belief in the supernatural. We have faith in our life, for example, believing we will live to see tomorrow, or in our health, believing we have years of healthy life ahead of us. Husbands and wives, parents and children have faith in one another.
Kentetsu TakamoriTags: happiness buddhism religion faith spirituality japan belief-confidence
Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano.
Kentetsu TakamoriTags: life buddhism belief religion faith spirituality japan
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.
Mark EpsteinTags: sexuality buddhism relationships psychology spirituality desire tantra
Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.
Mark EpsteinTags: buddhism psychology spirituality desire anxiety
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.
Mark EpsteinTags: buddhism freedom suffering addiction transcendence desire
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