Buddhist Quotes - Page 34

• Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West....
  My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

  Rumi

  Christian, East, West

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• Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.

  Tom Brokaw

  Needs, Earth, Soup

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• Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.

  Sara Maitland

  Christian, Prayer, Favorite Hobby

  "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Athlete, Dark, Light

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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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• Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

  Gautama Buddha

  Tired, Night, Law

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Catholic, Belief

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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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• 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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• To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief; not to believe stupidly, or to rely only on people, textbooks, conjecture, reasoning, or whatever the majority believes, but rather to believe what we see clearly for ourselves to be the case. This is how it is in Buddhism.

  Buddhadasa

  Believe, Buddhism, People

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• 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.

  Jenny Offill

  Moving, Suffering, Three

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.13, Vintage

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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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• Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.

  Christy Turlington

  Yoga, Mind, Body

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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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• Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and has become enchanted by the words of Buddhas. A monk is an imitator, he is false, pseudo. He imitates Buddhas. He may be Christian, he may be Buddhist, he may be a Hindu - that doesn't make much difference - but he imitates Buddhas.

  Rajneesh

  Christian, Differences, Experience

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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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• Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

  Jack Kornfield

  Firsts, Therapists, Cognitive Therapy

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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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• According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

  Pema Chodron

  Goes On, Belief, Moments

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2008.

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• 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 into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Funny, Girl, New York

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.41, Grove Press

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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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