Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nonphysical beings are drawn to enlightened beings. Some come to aid them in there work; some come to interfere. Some just come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them; they devastate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our… — Dhammananda Bhikkhuni Copy Share Image
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment, in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart. By simply relaxing… — Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Copy Share Image
“I asked the Dalai Lama what it was like to wake up with joy, and he shared his experience each morning. 'I… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One needs to be more vitally conscious of what is happening now. This is not to deny the reality of past and… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I am a warrior What I fight against is sensual gratification. I am a killer What I kill is ego. I am… — Abishek Bikram Shah Copy Share Image
“There are major revolutions every few hundred years--humanity seems to depend on things being shaken up from time to time, to remind… — K.J. Wetherholt Copy Share Image
“After a week in front of the screen, the opportunity to work with my hands—with all my senses, in fact—is always a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We'd rather have faithful Jews, Baptists or Buddhists than some of the Catholics who nearly run you over in the parking lot… — George Patterson Copy Share Image
There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions,… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
“One truth remains clear through the doubts and the questions, whether sinful or sanctified, virtue or vice: While the past may belong… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard a Buddhist monk suggest the number of food-caused deaths is minimized in steak dinners, which share one death over many… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditate. Inspire others. Spend time by yourself. Manage your career properly. Work at something constructive, that doesn't injure others, and put your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body; that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Of course, there are the old hardcore teacher types like me who sit around and tell jokes, realizing, what's the difference anyway… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
