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Quotations on Buddhism 18 Quotes Found Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. 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. When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection. A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values. Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad. I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat. Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them. A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up. 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. Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them. In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious. 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. Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. |
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