The earth is not the same everywhere. Certain powers are available in one part of the earth that are not available in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge;… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Just as Yama is a villain for evil forces, my character in 'Yaman' is also a villain against those who don't follow… — Vijay Antony Copy Share Image
You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention. Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
“The Buddhist precepts are different from the Confucian teachings in the form of expression, but they agree in their warning against the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The Heart-mantra of Dependent Origination (rten-'brel snying-po [རྟེན་འབྲེལ་སྙིང་པོ]), which liberates the enduring continuum of phenomena and induces the appearance of multiplying relics… — Graham Coleman Copy Share Image
“On the philosophic side the disciples of the Great Master dashed themselves against the eternal rocks of the Vedas and could not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic,… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and higher imprinting that will lead you into the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was always searching. I became a Buddhist in my twenties when I came to Los Angeles. I met a group of… — Alley Mills Copy Share Image
You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We don't live forever. We have a limited energy. You have to determine those things that you direct your energy towards, otherwise… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you must go to a negative place of power, go to them in a very conservative way. You must go to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you hold positive thoughts and images in your mind, you raise your power level and you create a vibratory energy around… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Buddhists succumbed to the Muslims, the British brought in Christianity, and now the Muslims decide one faction of their religion is… — Jameson Currier Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
![“The Heart-mantra of Dependent Origination (rten-'brel snying-po [རྟེན་འབྲེལ་སྙིང་པོ]), which liberates the enduring continuum of phenomena and induces the appearance of multiplying relics ('phel-gdung [འཕེལ་གདུང་] and rainbow lights, is: [OṂ] YE DHARMĀ HETUPRABHAVĀ HETUN TEṢĀṂ TATHĀGATO HY AVADAT…” quote by Graham Coleman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b54/graham-coleman-144287_buddhism_the-heart-mantra-of-dependent-originatio_1492761.jpg)
