Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

Study up on the Eastern religions. They're the only ones that are realistic. There's no answer, see.

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

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

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

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

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

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

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.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

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 Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.

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

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

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

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

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.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.