It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This… — Tim Ward Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, there are three gems: Buddha, the awakened one; Dharma, the way of understanding and loving; and Sangha, the community that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“riding the horse of virtuous actions I will guide it into the path of liberation with the reins of renunciation; And through… — Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The biggest revolution of the past 50,000 years of human history was not the advent of the Internet, the growth of the… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“If for a time Buddhism became to all intents and purposes a separate religion, denying the [Page 266] Vedas, the ordinary layman… — Arthur Llewellyn Basham Copy Share Image
“Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered, but wore it well,… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
“Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Say, for example, you develop the ability to make parking meters disappear. It's probably easier to put a quarter in it. That… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Today we can see many different forms of Buddhism, such as Zen and Theravada Buddhism. All these different aspects are practices of… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it… — Nick Love Copy Share Image
I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
I believe that politicians have a public trust to further debates about important issues. I firmly believe that every public debate holds… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
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