Hinayana Quotes & Sayings

I look around, pretty much 100% of the people driving are texting. And they're killing, everybody's murdering each other with their cars. But people are willing to risk taking a life and ruining their own because they don't want to be alone for a second because it's so hard. — Louis C.K.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path. — Chogyam Trungpa

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul. — Peter Kreeft

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence. — Washington Irving

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling. — Macaulay Culkin

It's almost impossible for anybody to believe that they're not loved by someone they believe they love. But honey, I love nobody. — Tennessee Williams

What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it. — Linda Hogan

In my view, it is inappropriate for us to refer to our confession as the Reformed Faith. The reformed churches did not (and do not) believe that they were confessing the Reformed Faith, but that they were confessing the "undoubted Christian Faith" in their confession and catechisms. There is a reason that this wing of the reformation called itself "Reformed." Unlike the Anabaptists, Reformed churches understood themselves as a continuing branch of the catholic church. At the same time, the Reformed wanted to reform everything "according to the Word of God." Not only our doctrine, but our worship and life must be determined by Scripture and not by human whim or creativity. — Michael S. Horton

I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of record again or else I'm going to lose it all. That's how you end up making the same song over and over. — Jay-Z

Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people. — Heinrich Heine

The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety ... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance. — Anthony Foxx

You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents - the rest you let float by. — David Wroblewski

In Hinayana Buddhism, practice is classified in four ways. The best way is just to do it without having any joy in it, not even spiritual joy. This way is just to do it, forgetting your physical and mental feeling, forgetting all about yourself in your practice. — Shunryu Suzuki

The Sravaka (literally 'hearer,' the name given by Mahayana Buddhists to contemplatives of the Hinayana school) fails to perceive that Mind, as it is in itself, has no stages, no causation. Disciplining himself in the cause, he has attained the result and abides in the samadhi (contemplation) of Emptiness for ever so many aeons. However enlightened in this way, the Sravaka is not at all on the right track. From the point of view of the Bodhisattva, this is like suffering the torture of hell. The Sravaka has buried himself in Emptiness and does not know how to get out of his quiet contemplation, for he has no insight into the Buddha-nature itself. Mo Tsu When Enlightenment is perfected, a Bodhisattva is free from the bondage of things, but does not seek to be delivered from things. Samsara (the world of becoming) is not hated by him, nor is Nirvana loved. When perfect Enlightenment shines, it is neither bondage nor deliverance. Prunabuddha-sutra — Aldous Huxley

The Path of the Heart is the Hardest to take, for the Heart will not Fool, and the Heart will not Fake. — A.B. Curtiss