Buddhist Quotes

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.

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!

I’m a Buddhist.

I’m a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, ‘Everything changes, don’t take it personally.’

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I’m not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

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.

Well, I don’t know about my mum; I think she is almost Buddhist in her approach to life in that she’s not going to work very hard at any particular thing and she’s not going to let any particular thing trouble her. I’m very different. I aspire to things and I worry about things.

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.

As we grow up, we’re constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.

I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

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.

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

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.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don’t believe in man-made religions.

I get up at sunrise. I’m a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it’s list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It’s not back-breaking, but it’s certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

I’m a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it’s been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

Laos is a deeply Buddhist country, and my visit included a traditional Tak Bat ceremony, in which you get up at sunrise and make offerings to Buddhist monks.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

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.

I know there are footballers who want to fight for justice, whether Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, any belief.

Being a vegetarian Buddhist would be a bit harsh to deal with in the kitchen, so I’m a Taoist, I study martial arts, and I don’t drink or smoke.

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.

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.

I certainly haven‘t lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

I don’t meditate anymore, and I wouldn’t call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on the situation.

My mom‘s actually a Buddhist. My dad‘s a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity.

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.

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

Right now, I’m following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need to be a Catholic and need to purge my sins and confess. It just depends on where I am.

There doesn’t seem to be a religion in ‘Game of Thrones’ that’s totally peaceful… we haven’t seen any Buddhists.

Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

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.

I am a Buddhist.

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.

You haven’t partied until you’ve partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

‘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.

If there were a bunch of Buddhist or Hindus or Roman Catholics carrying out grotesque acts of international terror, I would expect to see their faces on the side of bus.

I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.