“The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“That which takes one away from religion (dharma) is bad company ().” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The more lives you have, the harder it is to change, yet the stronger you are. It's a kind of funny dichotomy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists. — Norodom Sihanouk Copy Share Image
“What stops artadhyan (mournful contemplation hurting the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others) is dharma (Religion of the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Even the slightest criticism of others is an impediment (hindrance) to Absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan, Absolute Enlightenment). It also hinders Atmagnan (Knowledge of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can do anything. You can perform miracles, but it won't fulfill you. What will fulfill you is the stillness of eternity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“if you know anything about Buddhism, you will know that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being… — Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Copy Share Image
“If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
…the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that. — William James Copy Share Image
If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone, Buddhist or not, sees a Temple or an image of Buddha they receive blessings. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“The path to enlightenment is not a path. It is a realization that you are already the goal.” — Susan Shumsky Copy Share Image
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
