Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

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

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

In Catholicism, we would say you're going to be judged, so therefore you should do better now. For me, Buddhism is somewhat more workable because instead of saying I have to do good, it says I have to notice what I'm actually doing.

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery.

I am a simple Buddhist monk.

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

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

I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism better?

I'm a Buddhist.

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

I am a Buddhist.

The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.