Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

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

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

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.

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.

It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.

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

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

I'm a Buddhist.

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.

In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

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

Your nature is the Buddha.

I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.

Quality is the Buddha.

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

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

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

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

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

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.

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.