Top 651 Hinduism And Buddhism Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

Someone should tell the fundamentalists that even Advaita philosophy in Hinduism talks of oneness in all existence.

My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.

The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same.

It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

Buddhism in one long prayer.

All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism.

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

Buddhism is all about secrets.

Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found in the expression Buddha Dharma, and dharma as 'reality-as-is' (abhigama-dharma). The teaching is a verbal expression of reality-as-is that consists of two aspects-the subject that realizes and the object that is realized. Together they constitute 'reality-as-is;' if either aspect is lacking, it is not reality-as-is. This sense of dharma or reality-as-is is also called suchness (tathata) or thatness (tattva) in Buddhism.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went out and felt the ills of the community around you. Instead of retreating to a monastery, you were out in the streets working. And he's been a great help to me, just reading his book, so I don't feel helpless about what I can do about all the violence around me.

I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.

The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.

I practice Rasayana Buddhism.

Real Buddhism is about meditation.

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.