Top 1200 Good Buddhist Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief; not to believe stupidly, or to rely only on people, textbooks, conjecture, reasoning, or whatever the majority believes, but rather to believe what we see clearly for ourselves to be the case. This is how it is in Buddhism.

Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.

It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.

I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a religion can contain the whole truth. No religion, it seems to me, contains the whole truth. I think it's mad to think that there is nothing to learn from other traditions and civilizations. If you accept that other religions have something to offer and you learn from them, that is what you become: a Buddhist-Episcopalian or a Hindu-Muslim or whatever.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.

I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.

I’m not Buddhist, I’m not Hindu, I’m not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.

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

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really.

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.

I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment

My mother was a Tibetan Buddhist.

I am a simple Buddhist monk.

In the fall of 1988, I worshipped God in a Buddhist temple. As the smell of incense filled the air, I knelt before three images of the Buddha, feeling that the smoke could carry my prayers heavenward. It was for me a holy moment for I was certain that I was kneeling on holy ground....I will not make any further attempt to convert the Buddhist, the Jew, the Hindu or the Moslem. I am content to learn from them and to walk with them side by side toward the God who lives, I believe, beyond the images that bind and blind us.

I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance

It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.

I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

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

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

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.

It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.

The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.

I'm a Buddhist.

I am a Buddhist.

I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple.

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns.

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach.

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.

Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way.

Sometimes I feel like Leonard Cohen when he went off to become a Buddhist.

Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none else has the praise. We make our own destiny. The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. Each must assimilate the spirit of other religion and yet preserve his individuality and follow his own law of growth.

For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality.

What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.