Buddhism Quotes · Page 38

“I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.”

— Barack Obama

Purity is very fragile when it takes physical manifestation. It is very, very strong in its original aspect.

— Frederick Lenz

Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit.

— Frederick Lenz

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

— David Hockney

Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment seems paradoxical but all it needs is compassion”

— Pd

Each of your excursions is balanced by the strengthening of the tonal.

— Frederick Lenz

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

— Herbie Hancock

Laos is a deeply Buddhist country, and my visit included a traditional Tak Bat ceremony, in which you get up at sunrise…

— Ben Rhodes

Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably…

— Frederick Lenz

The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them…

— Frederick Lenz

If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then…

— Frederick Lenz

“It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by…

— Hermann Hesse

Beginning meditation is a process of unhooking ourselves from thought, being motivated to meditate. It is very exciting in the beginning because…

— Frederick Lenz

See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's…

— Frederick Lenz

I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are…

— Frederick Lenz

“Suffering offers a path to awareness. Awareness allows us to be re-born. Being re-born, one is able to let go of suffering…

— VD

There is a vortex of energy at the bottom of Walden Pond. That's where the inter-dimensional opening is. As people swim in…

— Frederick Lenz

Take a minute. Pause. Stop doing, and simply be...This moment. Think, here, now. This moment will never occur again. This moment is…

— A D Kruk

“However, there is the danger in all broad categorizations, such as the classification of Buddhist teachings as self-empty or other-empty, that they…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“In the split second where you understand a joke you experience a moment of “enlightenment.” This cannot be achieved by “explaining” the…

— Oliver Benjamin

“Reigns of terror are thus the bastard child of the Enlightenment. Terror in the name of utopian ideals would rise again and…

— Chris Hedges

“Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other…

— Ray Simpson

“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence,…

— Noam Chomsky

“In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

— Frederick Lenz

“Explaining many profound dharmas is easy; living them is hard.”

— Adept Godrakpa

A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

— Frederick Lenz

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

— Dogen

“Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.”

— Gautama Buddha

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I do feel I'm being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with 'Mortal Kombat.'

— Mark Dacascos

Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.

— Frederick Lenz

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

— Adyashanti

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

— Frederick Lenz

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

— Quentin S. Crisp

When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.

— Frederick Lenz

I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly.

— Frederick Lenz