Vinessa Shaw Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm a Buddhist.

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

I am a Buddhist.

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

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.

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.

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.

When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

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

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.

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.

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.

I practice Rasayana Buddhism.

I am a simple Buddhist monk.