In the religiosity of Zen Buddhism, demythologization of the mythical and existentialization of the scientific belong to one and the same process. Keiji Nishitani
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction, its own madness. Eckhart Tolle A New Earth (2005)
Gay subject–subject consciousness is more compatible with Buddhist non‐duality than the hetero subject–object consciousness. It can be claimed, therefore, that Buddha Nature, and Buddhism itself, is queer. Roger Corless
For 2500 years, Buddhists have systematically studied the essence and cause of happiness. which is why there is a growing interest among the scientific community both in their philosophy and their meditation practices. Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)
Schumacher ... rightly saw that in the world today Buddhism is a more potent basis for resisting the economism that rules the West and through it most of the East. John B. Cobb
It is the negation of the pleasures of the body that serves as the living source of the religious view, and is the axis of every religious dogma. This is especially evident in the religions of Christianity and Buddhism. Wilhelm Reich The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
This method of Bare Attention, so helpful to mind-knowledge and, through it, to world-knowledge, tallies with the procedure and attitude of the true scientist and scholar: clear definition of subject-matter and terms; unprejudiced receptivity for the instruction that comes out of the things themselves; exclusion, or at least reduction, of the subjective factor in judgment; deferring of judgment until a careful examination of facts has been made. Nyanaponika Thera The Heart of Buddhist Meditation (1965)
Whereas traditional Christianity calls for the subordination of all other commitments to the commitment to God, Buddhism teaches us to give up all craving and attachment, just those aspects of the human psyche that ground economism. John B. Cobb
If I had to pick a religion, I'd pick Buddhism. Buddhism is a kindly religion. It says you got a chance... it's got humor, it's got wisdom, it says to be nice to each other. All the rest of them have gods that want to beat the crap out of you if you defy the rules. Harlan Ellison
The Buddhist doctrine of impermanence includes the notion that there is no self... It holds that the idea of a separate, individual self is an illusion, just another form of maya, an intellectual concept that has no reality. To cling to this idea of a separate self leads to the same pain and suffering (duhkha) as the adherence to any other fixed category of thought. Fritjof Capra
He (Gautama Buddha) encapsulated his teachings in a single law: suffering arises from craving; the only way to be fully liberated from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving; and the only way to be liberated from craving is to train the mind to experience reality as it is. Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)
Can Beijing rewrite history to make the world believe that Buddhism is “Chinese”? And that the PRC should take the lead in the propagation of the teachings of the Great Monk, who more than 2,500 years ago wandered in the plains of North India, preaching compassion, mindfulness, and interdependent arising? By that, Beijing wants to teach Buddhism to Tibetan Buddhists. Marco Respinti
From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days. Soko Morinaga
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis & Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism. Florence Nightingale
Like Buddhism, Communists believed in a superhuman order of natural and immutable laws that should guide human actions. Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)
The third time that the writer accompanied His Majesty to the delightful valley of Kashmir, he met with a few old men of this persuasion, but saw none among the learned. Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
... the sparrow’s chirp, the crow’s caw, the willow’s green, the cherry blossom’s pink, are the truth of the Zen master and the essence of Basho's style. Masaoka Shiki
Until now I had mistaken the "Enlightenment” of Zen: I was wrong to think it meant being able to die serenely under any conditions. It means being able to live serenely under any conditions. Masaoka Shiki
My final words are these:As I fall I throw all on a high mountain peak -Lo! All creation shatters; thus it isThat I destroy Zen doctrine. Kogaku Soko