Sulak Sivaraksa famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world.
-- Sulak Sivaraksa

#People #Development #World
Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously
-- Sulak Sivaraksa

#Spiritual #Society #Firsts
People seeking to live spiritually must be concerned with their social and physical environment.
-- Sulak Sivaraksa

#God #People #Spirituality
I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state uses Buddhism as an instrument of power, so there are even Buddhists monks who say the Tamils should be eliminated. Thai Buddhists are not perfect either. Some Thai Buddhist monks have compromised with the kind and possess cars and other luxuries. In many Buddhist countries, the emphasis is on being goody-goody, which is not good enough. I am for buddhism with a small 'b' which is non-violent, practical and aims to eliminate the cause of suffering..
-- Sulak Sivaraksa

#Country #Buddhist #Humility
We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.
-- Sulak Sivaraksa

#Party #Justice #Suffering
The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.
-- Sulak Sivaraksa

#Creativity #Technology #Quality
Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beingsAny attempt to understand Buddhism apart from its social dimension is fundamentally a mistake. Until Western Buddhists understand this, their embrace of Buddhism will not help very much in the efforts to bring about meaningful and positive social change, or even in their struggle to transform their ego.
-- Sulak Sivaraksa

#Meaningful #Buddhist #Mistake
It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.
-- Sulak Sivaraksa

#Buddhist #War #Buddhism
Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.
-- Sulak Sivaraksa

#Commitment #Priorities #Suffering

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.
When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

Sulak Sivaraksa famous quotes

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