Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are. — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“But the scent of the good is blown against the wind: A good man perfumes all directions.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There's a Buddhist story about the guy who wants to be enlightened, and then he gets a cow and a wife and… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
I'd like to say is that we shouldn't have an idea that the goal of spiritual practice is to annihilate ones ego,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
In the Buddhist tradition, where mindful meditation comes from, anger is regarded as a somewhat unhealthy,unskillful emotion because we can be blinded… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
“In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
![“I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the time when Buddha himself, 2,500 years ago, made the point about the importance of education, and the word "Buddha" also means enlighten[ed] or educated. So all the…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d15/amartya-sen-2518_asian_i-think-east-asian-countries-i-think-the_2344083.png)
