Vinessa Shaw Quotes

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

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

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

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

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

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.

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

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

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

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

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.

When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.

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.

My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.

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

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.