We’ve collected the best Buddhist Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Sharon Salzberg, Pooja Bedi, Joni Mitchell, Alan Ball, Joan Baez. Use them as an inspiration.
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In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence – ignorance… about the separation of self and other… about the consequences of our actions.
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Now my children also don’t have a particular religion as I also didn’t have. The only difference is that now they have Muslim and Parsi also in their blood. So they may be called Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Sikh, Christian and Parsi!
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I’m a Buddhist.
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I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I’m not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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It’s not like I’m a Buddhist or anything, but I think we’ve all got, to a certain extent, a predestined life. My journey took me from Boston to Philadelphia to Oakland to Los Angeles and then as a broadcaster. I’ve been fortunate.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He’s enlightened. It’s fine – I don’t really fight it – but many people use the term ‘zen‘ and terms like ‘nirvana,’ ‘enlightenment‘ in an almost superficial way. It’s not that complicated.
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The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.
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I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.
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I know there are footballers who want to fight for justice, whether Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, any belief.
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I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
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I’m a Buddhist and active in my Buddhist’s Association, and I’m actually a National Young Women‘s representative for the organization, so I travel a lot helping young women who are practicing Buddhism.
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My mom‘s actually a Buddhist. My dad‘s a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity.
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From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life – if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.
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A fully engaged imagination is essential to the spiritual practice of the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana School, whose artistic tradition is in service of consciousness transformation.
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I am a Buddhist.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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‘The Last Airbender’ is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie‘s based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
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