Shekhar Kapur Quotes

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

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

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

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.

I'm a Buddhist and active in my Buddhist's Association, and I'm actually a National Young Women's representative for the organization, so I travel a lot helping young women who are practicing Buddhism.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Quality is the Buddha.

I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist, although I don't really know why I haven't. I guess I feel I don't need to.

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

I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.

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.

The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism have been passed down for a long time now. They have that system pretty well figured out.

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

When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.

The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery.

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.