Buddhist Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• 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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• 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 of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

  Morris West

  Talking, Continuity Of Life, East

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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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• 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

  Religious, Atheist, Catholic

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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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• Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Buddhism

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• 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, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.

  Mike White

  Men, Feet, People

  "Mike White walks us through all of Enlightened's second season (1 of 2)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. March 26, 2013.

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• 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

  Yoga, Book, Reading

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• Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist
  Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me
  It's less than likely,
  Move back,
  Let I breathe Jedi knight,
  The more space I get the better I write,
  (Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write,
  I need the space to say whatever I like.

  Jay-Z

  Moving, Writing, Knights

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• 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. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.

  Rick Warren

  Religious, Catholic, Baptists

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• 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 personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhism, Thinking, Skills

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• 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 is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

  Tara Brach

  Practice, Wake Up, Hey

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• 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 was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.

  Donna Farhi

  Success, Philosophy, Yoga

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.

  Bodo Balsys

  Hands, Meat Eating, Compassionate

  Bodo Balsys (2004). “Ahiṃsā: Buddhism and the Vegetarian Ideal”

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• The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.

  Dennis Merzel

  Confused, Confusion, Mind

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