Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you could get angry with someone and separate yourself from them, don't do that. If you have people who are difficult… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You exist forever. You've always existed and you'll always exist. You move in and out of bodies like some people in Los… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Dharma literally means 'truth' or 'norm.' It is a particular way of thinking, a way of viewing the world, which is not… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“The world is inherently chaotic, unstable and can change on a whim, which is why a Buddhist turns inward and strives to… — Michael Williams Copy Share Image
When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“What the radical Enlightenment excluded as implausible based on the principle of analogy, much of today’s world can accept on the same… — Craig S. Keener Copy Share Image
Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as "I AM." YOU ARE… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world is always chaos, but we pretend that it's not because it makes us feel better. In doing so we're able… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual balance is the ability to remain happy, to not be hostile to your neighbor when they are being hostile, and not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no"… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have… — Dōgen Copy Share Image
You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist,… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Amputechture' is my personal way of describing enlightenment, or just the celebration of this person who is a shaman and not a… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
“A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
![“I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.” quote by Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b03/quentin-s-crisp-4149_body_i-think-imagination-very-austere-element_1631590.jpg)
![“Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.” quote by Dōgen](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/dac/dogen-2979_buddhism_only-those-who-have-the-great-capacity-o_1309325.jpg)
![“[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.” quote by Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b57/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_aesthetics_i-m-concerned-with-aesthetics-and-this-i_2453902.jpg)
