Top 810 Buddhist Monk Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.
Sometimes I feel like Leonard Cohen when he went off to become a Buddhist.
I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile.
I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.
The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.
Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.
I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects
Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.
Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.
If you want to be great in what you're doing, you really need to limit yourself, so I consider my life as the life of a monk.
Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.
That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the Holy Spirit ... Acquire peace, and thousands around you will be saved.
Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.
Being an actor is like being a monk: you have got to be dedicated.
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.
I like to read psychologist's books. 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,' that's one of my favorites. Those kinds of books.
Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns.
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
My mom's actually a Buddhist. My dad's a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity.
Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach.
I was raised Church of England but I love the Buddhist philosophy, it's very powerful, non-violent.
I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.
The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
The solitary monk who shook the world
From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump
Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips
In peals of truth.
It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.
The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.
I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.
Monk's gone, and House is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off.
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
My role models weren't holding steering wheels and mashing gears on Sunday. They wore burgundy and gold with names like Art Monk and Darrell Green.
I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.
Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.
A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.
Whenever anyone, Buddhist or not, sees a Temple or an image of Buddha they receive blessings.
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile.
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
I’m not Buddhist, I’m not Hindu, I’m not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.
I love Meredith Monk, and with Instagram, I get a chance to see if she has a cat, and what's she reading.
In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really.
Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.
