Buddhist Quotes

I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.

Taryn Manning Boomkat
- Practice
- Buddhist
Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

Milarepa

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

Sandra Cisneros
- Real
- Attention
- Moments
If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart, I could really see you.

Dave Brandon
- Heart
- Patterns
- Buddhist
There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a bit. We're trying not to be fixed, we're trying not to be fixed to any one thing, any one gender, any one spiritual discipline, and any one race even; we're just trying to wing it beyond that. So it's a new gesture really, just another interpretation.

Tilda Swinton
There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.

Terence McKenna
- Mean
- Study
- Easy
My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.

Sean Astin
- Dad
- Catholic
- Buddhist
My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.

Tiger Woods