Buddhist Quotes

822 Buddhist quotes by 218 unique authors

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu… — M. Night Shyamalan
The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks… — Frederick Lenz
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz
To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man,… — Mike White
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. — Mike White
Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others. — Shantideva
While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing?… — Shantideva
Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent… — Shantideva
In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen… — Cynthia Heimel
Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I… — Dean Cain
Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity… — Morris West
I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then… — Patrick Duffy
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed… — Jay Griffiths
Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. — Karen Armstrong
He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse… — Tom Hardy
You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all.… — Rick Warren
I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our… — Tara Brach
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom… — Tara Brach
What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never… — Donna Farhi
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate… — Ajahn Sumedho
Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong. — Bodo Balsys
Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand. — Bodo Balsys
The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the change away from… — Bodo Balsys

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