Lobsang Tenzin Quotes

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

I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.

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

I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

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

I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

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.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

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

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way.

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.