Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

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

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

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

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.

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

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

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.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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.

Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

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 just the worst little Buddhist in town.

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

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

I'm a Buddhist.

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

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

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

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.

Your nature is the Buddha.

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