Mechai Viravaidya Quotes

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this space of becoming, we are subtly leaning forward into the future, trying to have security based on feeling that we can hold on, we can try to keep things from changing.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

I'm a Buddhist.

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

I am a Buddhist.