Leo Sayer Quotes

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

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

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

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.

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

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.

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'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.

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

For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.

Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.

Buddhism has helped me understand my defects and has given me the tools to combat them.

I want to live with a monk... and the Rolling Stones.

When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

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.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm a Buddhist.