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Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions about what religion is are so influenced by Protestantism - either real Protestantism or the secularized Protestantism that dominates our culture - and its assumption that beliefs are the most important thing.

Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists".

How can you possibly overcome your fears, doubts, worries and other problems? You can't. You simply don't have the capacity. Fortunately, the infinite can do all of these things for you. How? Because it is lacking in nothing.

How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.

How could sexuality be anything but God? It's the creation of life. Life is experiencing itself in endless forms.

How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.

How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.

How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished?

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

How do you develop your psychic abilities? Well, to begin with, naturally, you have to want to and believe that it is possible.

How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity.

How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.

Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.

Human beings are confused, deluded and generally un-awakened. So as a person who seeks to increase their energy, you have to be very careful about who you have intimate contact with.

Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.

Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.

Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn't define intelligence. An intelligent species survives.

Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly.

Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.

Humility can give everything to God. Everything comes from the source, everything returns to the source.

Humility feels that there is someone, somewhere who can do anything I can do better - except one thing: no one can be better at being me.

Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.

Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.

Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation.

Humility means you're willing to give someone a bigger slice of the pie.

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

Humility is the time that you spend in love with existence.

Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for worse.

Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to.

I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw that light into them.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power places - interdimensional vortexes where it is very easy to shift from one plane of reality to another.

Humility is my best friend, I've always valued it above all other spiritual qualities.

Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body.

I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as I am - that, in itself, should make you unhappy.

I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.

I am at the Continental Divide with the astral beings. They're most beautiful. They're most luminous. They have many shapes and sometimes their shape changes constantly, All kinds of colors.

Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself.

I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet.

I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

I believe in Buddhism. Not every aspect, but most of it. So I take bits and pieces.