Quotes by : Stephen Batchelor

Buddhism has become for me a philosophy of action and responsibility. It provides a framework of values,....

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism,....

Gotama's awakening involved a radical shift of perspective rather than the gaining of privileged knowledge....

No matter how hard I tried, I was incapable of giving more importance to a hypothetical, post-mortem....

Without relying on any deities, mantras, or mandalas, without having to master the intricacies of any....

The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed....

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.....

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men....

Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while....

One of the most difficult things to remember is to remember to remember. We forget that we live in a....