The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be… — Osamu Tezuka Copy Share Image
If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught. This book is meant to… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. — John Stott Copy Share Image
As long as you understand the meaning; love everything and attach to nothing, including people, obstacles and material things---then is when you… — Wandini Copy Share Image
“Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us —… — Bonnie Myotai Treace Copy Share Image
Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
“To discover a metaphysical relationship between Quality and the Buddha at some mountaintop of personal experience is very spectacular. And very unimportant.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Ah Buddha, you boastful charlatan. You may have learned nothing after 6 years of suffering, but then what of 7 years? What… — Mark X Copy Share Image
We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“That Congress saw what was right, but distrusted the enlightenment of the loyal masses; but what was forborne in distrust of the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
My mother was a spiritualist. We had weekly séances at our house with a neighbor who was a medium and various friends,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“What we call life...is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles.… — Kyongho Copy Share Image
Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
What we are doing is taking an occult energy; it's amplifying in the chakras and the hands. Then we are neutralizing it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Concepts are not real things; a conceptualized world is a dead world. Living actualities lose their life when put into concepts.” — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The choice of evil is given, so that restraint could be taught and practiced, and a higher level of enlightment could be… — QJ Copy Share Image
The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“There is no fire like greed No crime like hatred No sorrow like separation No sickness like hunger of heart And no… — Len Varley Copy Share Image
Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Bernadette never went to Mass; she was a fundamentalist Christian. Mother often said she only used religion as a framework for her… — Donal Ryan Copy Share Image
No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
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