Buddhism Quotes · Page 55

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

— Sharon Salzberg

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

— Frederick Lenz

The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned.

— Frederick Lenz

“A million faces of Buddha smiled at the night's futile attempt to lull the Awakened One into an ocean of dreams.”

— Lidija Stankovikj

The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.

— Frederick Lenz

Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

— Nikhil Saluja

Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.

— Frederick Lenz

Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.

— Frederick Lenz

Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column.

— Frederick Lenz

The road lesser traveled often enlightens, enhances and embraces our souls, while all the time carrying us closer to our energy source.

— Charles D Smith III

“For the Buddha, the key to liberation is mental purity and correct understanding, and for this reason he rejects the notion that…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

You can transmit the kundalini physically when people are there, and of course, long distance. It is energy, inter-dimensional energy.

— Frederick Lenz

Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical…

— Frederick Lenz

Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain…

— Frederick Lenz

The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the…

— Frederick Lenz

C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see…

— Frederick Lenz

“I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of…

— Peter Matthiessen

Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within…

— Eric Allen

We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the…

— Godfrey Higgins

“The self does not exist “from its own side,” [...] as an object that can be isolated and defined. The more you…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Refutations of the views of inherently existent production are not just refutations of rival systems but should be taken as a branch…

— Jeffrey Hopkins

“We are one multidimensional being and exist in multiple universes transcending space and time. We could also be described as multiple personalities…

— Russell Anthony Gibbs

What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon,…

— Frederick Lenz

“Buddha is our inherent nature—our buddha nature—and what that means is that if you’re going to grow up fully, the way that…

— Pema Chödrön

If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.

— Tenzin Palmo

Dear ¤Buddha, I am absent this morning. Can you thinking with me how my day is going to look?

— Ojale Hukom

You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.

— Frederick Lenz

“Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish”

— Chris Murray

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

— Umberto Eco

“To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.”

— Allan Lokos

Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

— Frederick Lenz

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”

— Allan Lokos

The Enlightenment ideal, which all universities claim to endorse, is that everyone should think for themselves.

— George Monbiot

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.

— Jack Handey

“Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything's an illusion And nothing is real.

— Van Morrison

Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.

— Frederick Lenz

“lack of self-confidence was considered, in Buddhism, to be a form of laziness,”

— David Michie