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The Middle Way: Faith Grounded in Reason QUOTES

The Middle Way: Faith Grounded in Reason QUOTES

1 " Merely refraining from the ten nonvirtues or cultivating of compassion and loving-kindness alone do not constitute a specific practice of the Buddhadharma; such practices of ethics and compassion are, after all, a feature of many spiritual traditions. When we speak of Buddhadharma in this context, the term Dharma (or spirituality) refers to the peace of nirvana—liberation—and to definite goodness, a term that encompasses both liberation from samsara as well as the full enlightenment of buddhahood. We "

― Dalai Lama XIV , The Middle Way: Faith Grounded in Reason