“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
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
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
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 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
“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
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
“I say to you, Beloved Students of Light: Arise! Awaken! to the fullness of your God - Dominion. Fearlessly use the conscious… — Godfré Ray King Copy Share Image
“In our time, the world created by the Enlightenment is strong, active, and exuberant. For a while in the past century, socialists… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Meditate but one hour upon the self’s nonexistence and you will feel yourself to be another man,” said a priest of the… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I lacked certainty, too,” he says. “I have the certainty, now, of not needing certainty. I have the… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“10. Idealism is a Potent Medicine for Self-created Mental Disease. In so far as Buddhist idealism refers to the world of sense,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage… — Katha Pollitt 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 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
People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.” — Sharon Salzberg 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
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
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
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
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you're extremely sensitive. It's more of a rush, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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