The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become... — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Confucianism, assimilating the Buddhist teachings, especially those of Zen, into itself and changing its entire aspect, brought forth the so-called Speculative philosophy.[FN#13]” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Mountain’s realization comes through the details of the breath, mountain appears in each step. Mountain then lives inside our bones, inside our… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“I was encouraged to ask in all seriousness what this life is for, what matters most for myself and others, what non-negotiable… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“When we speak of the sangha, we speak of the " arya sangha ," which means the "exalted sangha". At the time… — Dhomang Yangthang Copy Share Image
“This suffocating interior of a dime-store shop was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The satsang is - within the mass culture - like little mushrooms here and there, and somebody, maybe a Christian and a… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“I do not expect everyone to like me; but I would be extremely surprised if a person whom I consider highly spiritual,… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is a non-theistic belief suggesting a path of spiritual development can offer the individual insight into the true nature of reality.” — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is the flash in the pan, the sudden success. But continued success is dependent upon tremendous attention to detail. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Personal power changes or shapes consciousness, and that is kundalini. Kundalini exists within us. Some people have more of it, some dimensions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life.… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
“she could only hope these visitors from the stars were as benign and enlightened as the British explorers who landed upon heathen… — Samuel Peralta Copy Share Image
“To perform one’s duty is not dharma. To not perform one’s duty is a crime. People do carry out their duties anyway,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If ignorance is bliss, than knowledge is blissful enlightenment or a serious pain in the butt - depends on how I feel… — M.P. Sharma Copy Share Image
Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not be selfish and feel new people will take more of the teacher's attention and you won't get it. That's nonsense.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion…Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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