Buddhist Quotes
The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.
Buddhists and Taoists of the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan share the same roots and instructions and have always maintained sound exchanges.
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.
I’m not Buddhist, I’m not Hindu, I’m not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.
As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.
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.
The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years?
Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.
I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.
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.
In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.
Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.
There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy.
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes a deeper Catholic.
Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.
I don't care whether you're Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, or no religion at all. Jesus Christ still loves you. You still matter to God.
My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.
I want, I want, I want! We never grow out of it somehow. Unless we become Buddhists, maybe.
In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.
The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.
Western Tibetan Buddhists are always looking out there at the distant snow peaks and they lose the flowers along the path.
History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical.
My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.
All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!
The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind.
Pain does not differentiate between rich and poor or Christian and Buddhist. It brings the same feelings to everyone.
Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.
The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment