Top 1200 Real Buddhist Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.

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

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.

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

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

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

Whenever anyone, Buddhist or not, sees a Temple or an image of Buddha they receive blessings.

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

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

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

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

With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.

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

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

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

I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.

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

It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because we had real real in the room. You have real real in the cut every four or five shots, so you have this constant yardstick built into the footage by virtue of there being no real robot there. So it became the standard of photo reality that the VFX team had to match.

This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

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

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

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

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

If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good.

We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.

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

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

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

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

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

It is said that “there is a self,” but “non-self” too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is “neither self nor non-self.” Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha.

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

You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains in its intrinsic nature, never changing. It always remains in its selfsame essence, eternally so. That is your real nature. That which changes is not you, that is mind. That which does not change in you is buddha-mind. You can call it no-mind, you can call it samadhi, satori. It depends upon you; you can give it whatsoever name you want. You can call it christ-consciousness.

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

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

I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here with the opportunity the reality of hereness. We all have that. I trust that...I'm just not interested in labels. I find all of them constrictive. They're hard to wear. And they're hard to wear because we're always - hopefully - growing.

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

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

Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

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

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