Top 1200 Real Buddhist Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

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.

Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.

In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

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

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.

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

In the Buddhist learning process, we say three stages. The first is hearing, the second is contemplation, and the third is meditation.

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

People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.

The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

The best ones - Hulk Hogan believes in Hulkamania. It's not a thing he's selling here. It's real. He knows it's real because he goes to the Mall Of America and everybody goes insane, right? Wrestling is real. Those characters are real.

You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last. People want something real and natural, and if they catch you acting, you're dead. It has to look real. In order to look real, it has to be real, and I've always thought of the characters I've played as real people.

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

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

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

According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

I think China knows that in the early stages of Covid, it didn't do what it needed to do, which was to, in real time, give access to international experts, in real time to share information, in real time to provide real transparency.

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

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

I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

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.

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

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

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all do like that.

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

I'm vegan, Buddhist, minimalist, an actor. I'm very friendly, though. If I wasn't I think it would be easier to be, like, 'You're a bit of a knob.'

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

I was raised Church of England but I love the Buddhist philosophy, it's very powerful, non-violent.

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

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

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of people who I really loved.

When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.