If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Not until you succeed in being really flexible and soft, can you become really strong and forceful. —Zen Buddhist proverb” — Ulrica Norberg Copy Share Image
“Humans have the choice of being reborn, While they have no conscious memory when the're reborn, they tend to reconnect with the… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
'Every facet of our lives should be directed towards the goal of better understanding of ourselves and our relationship to each other,… — Nita Siegman Copy Share Image
“Historically, Buddhist monks hoping to detach themselves from lust and curb their desire for permanence would meditate on the form of a… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
All beings have lived and died and been reborn countless times. Over and over again they have experienced the indescribable Clear Light.… — Padmasambhava Copy Share Image
Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges.… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are not really separate beings of light. That's a dream we are having, the dream of multiplicity. Meditation takes us beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only real flesh was the flesh that existed in his imagination. Since, therefore, he regarded the flesh as an ideal abstraction,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Oneness and individuality coexist. There is no question about the importance and uniqueness of each individual life. However, difference is no difference.… — Gyomay M Kubose Copy Share Image
Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism suggests that you have that choice; you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
