Tara Brach Quotes

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me.

I practice Rasayana Buddhism.

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

I'm a Buddhist.

I am a Buddhist.

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

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

What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.

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.

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

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

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.

Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

I believe in Buddhism. Not every aspect, but most of it. So I take bits and pieces.

I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.

I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

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

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.

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.