The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind..

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oy….

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

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity..

The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultima….

Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to mo….

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form….

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable..

Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones, one of the eight pai….

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an ….

Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is. There's a….

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations..

I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on what to….

The greatest effort is not concerned with results..

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances..

Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka..

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing..

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous am….

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality..

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss..

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism..