Buddhism Quotes

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

In Buddhism there are words you can say.

.. as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

You only lose what you cling to.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering.

You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world.

What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux.

Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple.

She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.

The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism.

There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

I did study religion for a little while.

I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation.

Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.