Little Buddha Quotes

Little Buddha is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Little Buddha stopped airing in 1970.

It features Jeremy Thomas as producer, Ryuichi Sakamoto in charge of musical score, and Vittorio Storaro as head of cinematography.

Little Buddha is recorded in English and originally aired in Italy. Each episode of Little Buddha is 140 min. long. Little Buddha is distributed by AMLF (France).

The cast includes: Ruocheng Ying as Lama Norbu, Alex Wiesendanger as Jesse Conrad, Keanu Reeves as Siddhartha, Bridget Fonda as Lisa Conrad, Sogyal Rinpoche as Kenpo Tenzin, Santosh Bangera as Channa, Chris Isaak as Dean Conrad, Jigme Kunsang as Champa, and Ven. Khyongla Rato as Boy.

Little Buddha Quotes

Ruocheng Ying as Lama Norbu

• (Ruocheng Ying) "Once upon a time, in a village in ancient India, there was a little goat and a priest. The priest wanted to sacrifice the goat to the gods. He raised him arm to cut the goat's throat, when suddenly the goat began to laugh. The priest stopped, amazed, and asked the goat, "why do you laugh? Don't you know I'm about to cut your throat?" "Oh yes," said the goat. "After 499 times dying and being reborn as a goat, I will be reborn as a human being." Then the little goat began to cry. The high priest said, "why now are you crying?" And the goat replied, "for you, poor priest. Five hundred lives ago I too was a high priest, and sacrificed goats to the gods." The priest dropped to his knees, saying, "forgive me, I beg. From now on I will be the guardian and protector of every goat in the land.""
• (Ruocheng Ying) "Now, what does this ancient tale teach us?"
• (Unnamed) "That no living creature must ever be sacrificed."
• (Ven. Khyongla Rato) "What happened to the goat?"
• (Ruocheng Ying) "Ah, yes. The goat; hmm; had many many lives as a human being. Until one day he turned into someone very strange indeed. Champa, show us something of your previous life --"
• (Jigme Kunsang) "B-a-a-a-a-a"
• (Jigme Kunsang) "B-a-a-a-a-a"

• (Ruocheng Ying) "There is no empty room when the soul is full -- -- you learn that in a prison cell. laughs"

Keanu Reeves as Siddhartha

• (Keanu Reeves) "The path to enlightenment is in the middle way. It is the line between all opposite extremes."

• (Keanu Reeves) "I have been born to reach Enlightenment and free all creatures from suffering."

• (Keanu Reeves) "You are pure illusion, you do not exist. The earth is my witness."

• (Keanu Reeves) "Why have you lied to me about the existence of suffering, sickness, poverty, old age, and death?"
• (King Suddhodhana) "If I've lied to you, Siddhartha, it has been because I love you."
• (Keanu Reeves) "Your love has become a prison."

• (Unnamed) "The King had given Siddhartha three palaces: one for winter, one for the rainy season, and one for summer. In this way he hoped to shield his son from all knowledge of pain or worry. But then, one day, Siddhartha heard a mysterious song of haunting beauty. At first he couldn't understand where it was coming from. The song was in a language he had never heard before. What was it saying? What did it mean?"
• (Keanu Reeves) "What is this song?"
• (Yasodhara) "It is from a faraway land, my Lord. It evokes the beauties of the country she knew as a child. The mountains, and the lakes that she can never forget."
• (Keanu Reeves) "How strange. Do such places exist? Places as beautiful as here?"
• (Yasodhara) "I've heard that only suffering lies beyond these walls."
• (Keanu Reeves) "What do you mean, "suffering"?"
• (Yasodhara) "Your father loves you very much. He has given us everything we could want. There is no need to go anywhere else when you have such beauty around you."
• (Keanu Reeves) "It is true. We have everything, and everything is perfect. So -- what is this feeling I have? If the world is so beautiful, why have I never seen it? I've not even seen my own city. I must see the world, Yasodhara --. with my own eyes."

Jigme Kunsang as Champa

• (Jigme Kunsang) "Someone like Lama Norbu can remain like this for ten days. Or even more. He can sit like a mountain, serene and unmovable. And he can meditate deep and vast as ocean. And then smoothly, while doing meditation, he can enter into the state of death, with his own will."
• (Chris Isaak) "He's dying."
• (Jigme Kunsang) "We are all of us dying every minute. Death is a big part of life. Every breath that we breathe, we die."
• (Chris Isaak) "What about his passion for life? What about the people he's leaving behind?"
• (Jigme Kunsang) "He will come back."
• (Chris Isaak) "I don't know if I believe it, but I'd like to."

Santosh Bangera as Channa

• (Santosh Bangera) "Death is the moment of separation, which comes to every person in every family. When the body grows cold and stiff like wood, it has to be burnt like wood."

Alex Wiesendanger as Jesse Conrad

• (Alex Wiesendanger) "Your grandfather must have been pretty tough if the tiger lost his tooth."

• (Alex Wiesendanger) "Were you sleeping lama?"
• (Ruocheng Ying) "No, I was meditating."
• (Alex Wiesendanger) "What's meditating?"
• (Ruocheng Ying) "It is being totally quiet and relaxed, separating yourself from everything around you, setting your mind free like a bird, and you can then see your thoughts as if they were passing clouds"

Chris Isaak as Dean Conrad

Add or Update Quotes

If you have a quote to add or change and want to let us know, please fill in the form below. Include the time in the film/video if possible so we can find it.