Luke Rhinehart Quotes

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.

There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.

My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.

I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion.

In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

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

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

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.