Buddhism Quotes · Page 54

“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

— Pema Chodron

Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still.

— Samael Aun Weor

I was busy in making a film called 'Buddha in a Traffic Jam' and it consumed two and half years.

— Vivek Agnihotri

If you try to pull too much power through too soon, you will injure yourself.

— Frederick Lenz

You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

— Frederick Lenz

Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality.

— Frederick Lenz

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

— Dogen

What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate…

— Frederick Lenz

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

— Frederick Lenz

Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other…

— Frederick Lenz

The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every…

— Frederick Lenz

Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers…

— Frederick Lenz

If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with…

— Tenzin Palmo

A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but…

— Stephen Batchelor

When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be…

— Frederick Lenz

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great…

— Swami Vivekananda

At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time…

— Brad Warner

“Thinking that we can find some lasting pleasure and avoid pain is what in Buddhism is called samsara, a hopeless cycle that…

— Pema Chödrön

“We agreed that at least to some extent the whole punk movement is based on the Buddha's 1st noble truth of suffering…

— Noah Levine

According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not…

— Dalai Lama

“Buddhism in general and Centrism in particular is not meant as a philosophical edifice but as a set of tools for experientially…

— Karl Brunnholzl

Karma is the record of services. Karma is the term used in Buddhist teaching. Taoists use the term te. Christians us the…

— Zhi Gang Sha

“Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening…

— Stephen Batchelor

“When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.”

— Gautama Buddha

The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually.

— Frederick Lenz

I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

— Frederick Lenz

“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.”

— Robert Thurman

Redefine you. Oh God, life is so beautiful. Don't let it pass you by. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.

— Frederick Lenz

“Choose the Path to Enlightenment over the path of least resistance”

— Brian Coletta

“The greatest religion [dharma] is that we keep everyone pleased.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Sex is like any other transaction, except that it is not like any other transaction.

— Frederick Lenz

The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

— Frederick Lenz

As you learn to love the company of the holy, your heart will become pure.

— Frederick Lenz

“While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.”

— Allan Lokos

Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

— Frederick Lenz

The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

— Frederick Lenz

“Knowledge flourishes where words of eminent men empower the cognition of young minds with enlightenment.”

— Stephen TSJ

Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you.

— Frederick Lenz