Karen Armstrong Quotes

I'm a Buddhist.

I am a Buddhist.

Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism.

Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good.

This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.

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

Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me.

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

I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

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.

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.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

I believe in Buddhism. Not every aspect, but most of it. So I take bits and pieces.

The light of Asia

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

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

I am a simple Buddhist monk.

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

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

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.