Buddhist Quotes - Page 33

• If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhism, Thoughtful, Men

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Men, Unbiased

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• Now you are on the Buddhist way. Keep up your meditation, as there is no instant illumination. The mind moves slowly into this. Do not become attached to your method. When, in the course of your meditation, your consciousness will have expanded and been transformed, you will then recognize that all the ways are valid ways.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Illumination, Meditation

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• Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

  Noah Levine

  Pain, Sitting Still, Meditation

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• Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Practice, Needs

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• Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

  Jack Kornfield

  Lying, Heart, Compassion

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.24, Random House

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• I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.

  Hafez

  Christian, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

  Russell Brand

  Imagine

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• I think more like a quantum
  Buddhist, in that there is a universal proto-conscious mind which we
  access, and can influence us. But it actually exists at the
  funda-mental level of the universe, at the Planck scale.

  Stuart Hameroff

  Thinking, Mind, Levels

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• Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

  Richard Gere

  Gdp, Way, Serious

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• We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive framework is religious in nature, even if not allied with a particular institutional religion.

  James K. A. Smith

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

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• What God is doing today is calling people out of the world for His name. Whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world, or the non-believing world, they are members of the body of Christ because they've been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus, but they know in their hearts they need something that they don't have and they turn to the only light they have and I think they're saved and they're going to be with us in heaven.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated to settle disputes within the circle of monks, i think they might also be of use in our households and in our society.The first practice is Face-to-Face-Sitting.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Years, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.

  U Thant

  Spiritual, Humility, Emotional

  Thant (U) (1978). “View from the UN”, Doubleday Books

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• Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Christian, Jesus, Made

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• Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

  Tim Ward

  Speaking Spanish, Silence, Sage

  Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.73, Changemakers Books

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• 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

  Self, Enlightenment, Path

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• 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 couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

  Dean Cain

  Christian, Catholic, Path

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

  Patrick Duffy

  Morning, Coffee, Wife

  "Goodbye Texas, hello Woking!" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2006.

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• 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 syllable that created the world.

  Jay Griffiths

  Believe, World, Tradition

  "Songs and freedom in West Papua" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.

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• 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 floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

  Tom Hardy

  Floating, Drowning, Rescue

  "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.

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• '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 philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Art, Philosophy, Lasts

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• 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 annihilation of the ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Men, Ego

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• Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that
  feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

  Dalai Lama

  Christian, Real, Rich Or Poor

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• It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.

  Adyashanti

  Christian, Teaching, Buddhism

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