Top 810 Buddhist Monk Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way.
[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance
If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.
There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.
Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.
The dress does not make the monk.
[Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.
Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.
In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.
When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.
Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.
If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.
You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.
Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good.
I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.
I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.
Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.
I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.
When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure.
It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!
I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration
I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.
I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.
I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
I was fat and ugly and never 'wanted to hook up - for a gay guy that's unheard of. I was like a monk or a priest.
One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.
Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.
From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.
I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.
You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.
People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.
Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.
Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.
I try to do other characters that are different from Monk, obviously, because I'd like to be remembered for more than just that.
I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.
It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.
I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.
Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.
