Quotes: Buddhism

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.

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.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

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.

In Buddhism there are words you can say… as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

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

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it’s because of karma, some past connection.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.