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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
Dalai Lama
People
Believe
Tend
Investigate
He
Buddha
Buddhism
Open-Minded
Because
Command
Just
Interested
Urged
Them
Things
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.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Nature
You
Suffering
Cause
Try
Recognize
Run
Buddhism
Look
Making
Order
Confront
Us
Teaches
Away
Deeply
There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Time
Better
Practice
Become
Buddhism
Who
Many
Christians
If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.
Thich Nhat Hanh
You
Communication
Politician
Back
Way
Negotiation
Reconciliation
Restoring
Clear
Buddhism
Buddhist
Learn
Concrete
Want
Might
Bringing
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.
Dalai Lama
Compassion
Christian
Meditation
Nuns
Ability
Adopt
Develop
Buddhism
Buddhist
Devotion
Course
Methods
Forgive
Order
Anyone
Use
Who
Techniques
Monks
Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Heart
Matter
Meditation
Mindfulness
About
Attention
Buddhism
Buddhist
Spoken
Particular
Tradition
Often
Used
Paying
Technique
The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
Daisaku Ikeda
All Things
Mutual
Various
Through
Buddhism
Idea
Come
Causes
Conditions
Being
Interactions
Holds
Interdependence
Which
Central
Things
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Dalai Lama
Religion
You
Important
Awareness
Consequences
Buddhism
Self-Discipline
Call
Another
Whether
The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know.
Goldie Hawn
Life
Religion
Spiritual
You
Try
Thought
Islam
Precepts
Christianity
Outcome
Spiritual Life
Part
Buddhism
Studying
Know
Judaism
Learn
Hinduism
Ultimately
Same
Interesting
Much
Based
My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.
Harry Dean Stanton
Cause
Feeling
Philosophy
Buddhism
Most
Practical
Closer
Zen
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness
Out
Fact
Buddhism
Powerful
Irrelevant
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
Richard Gere
Karma
Strong
Past
Intuitive
Some
Someone
Buddhism
Because
Connection
Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.
Ricky Martin
Beautiful
Faith
You
Soul
Says
Worst
Worst Thing
Tell
Someone
Wrong
Buddhism
Very
Your
Teaching
Thing
The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism have been passed down for a long time now. They have that system pretty well figured out.
Adam Yauch
Time
Long
Long Time
Down
System
Out
Pretty
Buddhism
Tibetan
Well
Passed
Been
Teachings
Figured
Now
You see in Islam, you see in Christianity, you see in Africa, in different religions, in Buddhism and Hinduism, there is a strong commitment to refugee protection.
Antonio Guterres
You
Commitment
Strong
Protection
Islam
Christianity
Religions
See
Buddhism
Hinduism
Refugee
Africa
Different
Different Religions
A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell, and it just sort of got stuck in my head. Later on when I went to setup a MySpace, I tried a bunch of names and they were all taken so I just kind of ended up with Avicii and then I got really attached to it.
Avicii
Me
Hell
Setup
Later
Mine
Kind
Tried
About
Attached
Myspace
Stuck
Taken
Head
Buddhism
Buddhist
Stuff
Names
Sort
Got
Were
Friend
Up
Bunch
Ended
Just
Being
Just Kind
Then
Really
Lowest
Level
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
Barbara Walters
You
Happy
Better
Believe
Say
Religions
Exception
Better Place
Buddhism
Tibetan
End
Heaven
Common
Where
Place
Which
Teach
Program
As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.
Dave Davies
Spiritual
You
Simplicity
Path
Own
Energy
Think
Find
Purity
Individual
Buddhism
Like
Hinduism
Means
Your
Many
Elements
I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.
Dave Davies
Life
Spiritual
Christ
Energy
Everything
Spiritual Life
Buddhism
Always
Stones
Worked
Teachings
Foundation
Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.
Donovan
Entity
Spiritually
Buddhism
Close
Get
Describing
Floating
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
Duncan Sheik
Music
Try
Rather
More
More Or Less
Buddhism
Implicit
Make
Sure
Than
Explicit
Less
My father gave me a copy of 'Seven Years in Tibet,' and that's what turned me on to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.
Genesis P-Orridge
Me
Father
Gave
Seven
Buddhism
Tibet
Tibetan
Years
Turned
Copy
I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things better for other people, and in the end, money will come as a result.
Guo Guangchang
Business
People
Money
Better
Result
Will
Other
Only
Purpose
Buddhism
Feel
Come
Like
Make
Practising
Doing
End
Just
In The End
Your
Things
Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism.
Guy Laliberte
Religions
Partial
Buddhism
Most
Am
Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.
Herbie Hancock
Life
Music
Practice
Only
Buddhism
Because
Affected
Anymore
Reason
Whole
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
Herbie Hancock
Me
Become
More
Buddhism
Human
Turned
Challenging
Humanness
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