Alex Grey Quotes

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Quality is the Buddha.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.

If anything, I label myself as sort of Buddhist. My wife Jane is Buddhist.

I practice Rasayana Buddhism.

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.