Sam Harris Quotes

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

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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

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.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

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

The light of Asia

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

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.

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

Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good.

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.

This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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 do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

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.