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A jug fills drop by drop. -- Gautama Buddha
I am a simple Buddhist monk. -- Dalai Lama
Love is the absence of judgment. -- Dalai Lama
I am a simple Buddhist monk -- Dalai Lama
I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town. -- Cher
I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment. -- Uma Thurman
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. -- Dalai Lama
There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry. -- Robert Bly
I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple. -- Al Gore
My religion is to live and die without regret. -- Milarepa
Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue. -- Harry Carpenter
Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration -- Duncan Sheik
It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule. -- Ye Xiaowen
I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk. -- Burton Cummings
I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years. -- Tina Turner
It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist. -- Jack Kornfield
I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words. -- George Sanders
I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less. -- Dalai Lama
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion. -- Matt Dillon
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. -- Dalai Lama
Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind. -- Jack Kornfield
Shambhala is a Buddhist tradition with its own unique view and approach. -- Sakyong Mipham
One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness. -- Gil Fronsdal
Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values. -- Dalai Lama
Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way. -- Joan Halifax
I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less. -- Dalai Lama
Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts. -- Russell Brand
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist. -- Alan Ball
I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful. -- David Bailey
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance -- U Thant
I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices. -- Taryn Manning
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality. -- Brad Warner
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage. -- Tim Ward
(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia. -- Gautama Buddha
Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist. -- Ray Wylie Hubbard
I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant. -- Steven Cojocaru
My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. -- Whoopi Goldberg
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks. -- Cameron Diaz
The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute. -- Michael Palin
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. -- Gautama Buddha
...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that. -- William James
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another. -- Dalai Lama
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me. -- Frank Hall
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point. -- Abel Ferrara
To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person. -- Dalai Lama
Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience. -- Gelek Rimpoche
I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything. -- Goldie Hawn
Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings. -- Tenzin Palmo
The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech. -- Sylvia Boorstein
From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Whenever anyone, Buddhist or not, sees a Temple or an image of Buddha they receive blessings. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them. -- John Burdett
The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -- Dalai Lama
Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion. -- Dalai Lama
I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects -- Duncan Sheik
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.' -- Alan Ball
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. -- Gautama Buddha
In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning. -- Mechai Viravaidya
It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion. -- Jack Kornfield
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. -- Ron Reagan
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first. -- Shannon L. Alder
From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change. -- Pat Allwright
Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of assets. -- Kentetsu Takamori
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. -- Chuck Close
Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent. -- Dalai Lama
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. -- Frederick Lenz
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. -- Frederick Lenz
When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence -- Robin Williams
I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. -- Dalai Lama
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can. -- Thomas Merton
In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me. -- Joan Baez
Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening. -- Mike Scheidt
Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself. -- Mark Epstein
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. -- Nhat Hanh
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. -- Dalai Lama
The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one. -- Nikola Tesla
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. -- Edward de Bono
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point. -- Frederick Lenz
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy. -- Richard Gere
Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached. -- Gerald Stern
Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are. -- Dalai Lama
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point. -- Frederick Lenz
My idea for a Buddhist video game: No guns. Self-immolate instead. Get reincarnated. Repeat until you find Nirvana. Takes forever to play. -- Dan Spencer
NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. -- Daisaku Ikeda
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
Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already. -- Dalai Lama
In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido. -- Joseph Jarman
Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim. -- Diana L. Eck
The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light. -- Frederick Lenz
As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent. -- Martha Beck
The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light. -- Frederick Lenz
If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really. -- Dalai Lama
In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings. -- Nhat Hanh
The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years? -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned. -- Annie Besant
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant... -- Gautama Buddha
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path. -- Dalai Lama
Iâ??m not Buddhist, Iâ??m not Hindu, Iâ??m not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God, -- Katy Perry
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality. -- Rachel Griffiths
No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart! -- Yogaswami
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
To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience. -- D.T. Suzuki
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced. -- Sam Harris
I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind. -- Hiroshi Sugimoto

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