Buddhist Quotes

• 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
  • Artist
  • Spiritual
  • Discipline

• He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • Guy
  • Musician
  • Poet

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Real
  • Attention
  • Moments

• 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
  • Mother
  • Meditation
  • Enlightenment

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Sickness
  • Lightning

• I love all religions. ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is something else growing there." She upheld that there are many ways to God': "All is God - Buddists, Hindus, Christians, etc., all have access to the same God."

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Christian
  • Buddhist

• At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time immediately say that it was only one way of looking at it. Whenever addressing realms of Heaven or Hell, he'd also address that it was just a psychological state.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Heaven
  • Teacher
  • Psychological

• One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Attention
  • Keys
  • Buddhist

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