The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You draw the mystical kundalini from the earth. Earth is an element. Fire, air, earth, water, and ether - the mystical kundalini… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What I do, the teacher of the nagual, is open up the bubble of your luminosity and allow the luminous being to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“4. The Third Step in the Mental Training. To be the lord of mind is more essential to Enlightenment, which, in a… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think real enlightenment is total sanity, a kind of acceptance of what actually is. It does involve a kind of different… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found… — Taitetsu Unno Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Never forget how swiftly this life will be over, like a flash of summer lightning or the wave of a hand. Now… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Enlightenment does not put an end to awareness. It puts an end to limited awareness. It doesn't necessarily put an end to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of people dabbling means Buddhism has come into the mainstream, where people begin to use these terms and ideas, and… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Your heart chakra is not in your physical body. It is in your subtle physical body, but it comes in contact with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are some careers that will develop your mind more than others. In the study of enlightenment, it is most important to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is a time of great confusion, of great darkness; other networks are slipping in through other dimensional planes. Soon the network… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Buddha may have been the Beethoven of his psychological state, but Beethoven got to where he was gradually, and still fell… — Designing the Mind Copy Share Image
Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Attachment has to do with suffering, so it's really close to Buddhism, because Buddhism wants to relieve you from suffering; you're supposed… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
