Pema Chodron Quotes

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

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

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'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Buddhism allows me to feel well, tranquil, and very happy inside. This is good not only for football but for my life in general.

The one philosophy or religion I find I am most close to is the Buddhist one. I think it is the one that respects others and the one that doesn't say that this is the only way. I think happiness is the moment when - if you've forgotten those little things - they suddenly come back into focus for you.

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

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

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.

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.

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.

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

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

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

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.

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.

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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