Buddha Monastery Quotes & Sayings

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy "one word" Zen. When asked "What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?" he replied: "An appropriate statement." On another occasion, he answered: "Cake." I admired his directness. — Stephen Batchelor

The greatest religion gives suffering to nobody," reads a weather-beaten sign, quoting the Buddha, at Chele La pass, the highest motorable point in the country, near Paro. This maxim is everywhere evident. As a Bhutanese friend and I walked in the mountains one afternoon, he reflexively removed insects from the path and gently placed them in the verge, out of harm's way. Early one morning in Thimphu, I saw a group of young schoolboys, in their spotless white-sleeved ghos, crouching over a mouse on the street, gently offering it food. In Bhutan, the horses that trudge up the steep trail to the Tiger's Nest monastery are reserved for out-of-shape tourists; Bhutanese don't consider horses beasts of burden and prefer not to make them suffer under heavy loads. Even harvesting honey is considered a sign of disrespect for the industrious bees; my young guide, Kezang, admonished me for buying a bottle of Bhutanese honey to take home. (Chastened, I left it there.) In — Madeline Drexler

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. — Michael Moore

For a significant man
woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism. — Sophia Bush

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment. — Geoffrey Wood

Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief. — Mamnoon Hussain

Before we learn what's right, we put our trust in the wrong people, and it's never good to start life's adventures, especially important ones like marriage, when we're too young even to know ourselves. — Kristen Ashley

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people. — Magnus Scheving

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up. — Tom Barbash

the space diaspora occurred as late capitalism writhed in its internal decision concerning whether to destroy Earth's biosphere or change its rules. Many argued for the destruction of the biosphere, as being the lesser of two evils — Kim Stanley Robinson

Nothing prevents us being natural so much as the desire to appear so. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults. — Franck Ribery

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure. — Michel De Montaigne

It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings. — Mariah Carey

These sons belong me, and this wealth belongs me," with such thoughts the fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth? — Friedrich Max Muller

Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever! — Baron Munchhausen