1,972 Quotes About Buddhism

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

I don't want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

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

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.

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.