The Simpsons (TV Series)

She of Little Faith (2001)

Yeardley Smith: Lisa Simpson

Quotes 

• Lisa Simpson : Lenny and Carl? You guys are Buddhist?

  Carl : Oh, yeah. If I didn't have inner peace, I'd go completely psycho on all you guys all the time.

  Lisa Simpson : Well, I'm looking for a new faith, one that isn't so materialistic.

  Richard Gere : Well, you've come to the right place. Buddhism teaches that suffering is caused by desire.

  Lisa Simpson : Richard Gere?

  Lenny : Ooh! The world's most famous Buddhist.

  Richard Gere : Well, what about the Dalai Lama?

  Carl : You know, the fourteenth incarnation of the Buddha Avalokesvara?

  Lenny : Who's Buddha?

  Richard Gere : It's a good thing Buddhism teaches freedom from desire, 'cause I've got the desire to kick your ass.

• Lisa Simpson : [reading a Buddhist pathlet on her bed]  "Nirvana is achieved through right views and right speech. Positive actions lead to happiness; and negative actions leads to unhappiness. No creator gods. Just the pursuit of enlightenment."

  Lisa Simpson : [a moment later... ; shouting out of the window, five birds come out from the left tree]  I'm a Buddhist!