Buddhist Monk Quotes

• I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Simple, Monk

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• The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Past, Live In The Moment, Mindfulness

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2016

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• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Meaningful, Positive Thinking

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  People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Buddhist, Children

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• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  Cameron Diaz

  Buddhist, Silence, Sunrise

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• No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

  Nhat Hanh

  Understanding, Blame, Argument

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Responsibility, Buddhism

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• Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mean

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• Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Reality, Passive Resistance

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• If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Yoga, Home

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2010.

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• I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Simple, Special

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

  Burton Cummings

  Buddhist, Monk, Havens

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• Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Silly, Simple

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• From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Humorous, Encounters

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• Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Thinking

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• As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Light

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• Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen.

  Rajneesh

  Buddhist, Teaching, Catholic

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• I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human 350 against the backdrop of the melting glaciers. This is not their fault, and yet they're stepping up to be part of the solution.

  Bill McKibben

  Buddhist, Moving, Email

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• Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.

  Richard Davidson

  Buddhist, Unique, Technology

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• One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Buddhist, Kings, Book

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Simple, Years

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• I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state uses Buddhism as an instrument of power, so there are even Buddhists monks who say the Tamils should be eliminated. Thai Buddhists are not perfect either. Some Thai Buddhist monks have compromised with the kind and possess cars and other luxuries. In many Buddhist countries, the emphasis is on being goody-goody, which is not good enough. I am for buddhism with a small 'b' which is non-violent, practical and aims to eliminate the cause of suffering.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Country, Buddhist, Humility

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• It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who can do the most acts of random kindness.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Buddhist, Kindness, Monk

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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