The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Islam, in contrast to Christianity and Buddhism, does not have monasticism; spiritual life, social life, they are all integrated and related together… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Everyone burns, as the Buddha says, in their own way. Some burn with anger, some with lust, some with a desire for… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“We can also explore four additional concentrations on impermanence, non-craving, letting go, and nirvana. These four practices are found in Sutra on… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Buddha was not a Buddhist. Jesus was not a Christian. Muhammad was not a Muslim. They were teachers who taught Love…Love was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It wasn't enlightenment to live like you had no history and no consequences. The world wasn't just made out of instants --… — Riley Redgate Copy Share Image
The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn’t cooperate. So we suffer. And… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not so much a hard-won achievement, much less a "creation," but instead is deep relaxation and recovery of our natural… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
It really was something, to see Ram Bahadur Bomjon, apparently living without food or water. Before I went on that trip I'd… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Let us respect and honor all who seek enlightenment through love and understanding; also, let us not disregard nor silence religion, the… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is very important that your career raises your awareness. If your career is lowering your personal power, then it has got… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is your causal body that is the real you. At the end of each incarnation, it carries the knowledge and karmic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you can marry a handsome man or a beautiful woman and you have two choices and both people are equally nice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We see what we want to see. We hear what we want to hear. We do what we want to do, until… — Steve Mitskavich Copy Share Image
In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND… — St. Germain Copy Share Image
“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are many other chakras, or nadis as they are also called. There are chakras in the hands, fingertips, feet and a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
