Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that everyone should meditate, far from it. Meditation is for very few individuals. I'm speaking of something that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being a vegetarian Buddhist would be a bit harsh to deal with in the kitchen, so I'm a Taoist, I study martial… — Arthur Potts Dawson Copy Share Image
The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“I believe it is my dharma to not get inoculated because God ordains who will be diseased and who will be healthy.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Bait & Switch Buddhism is a classic bait-and-switch operation. We’re attracted by the enlightenment in the window, but as soon as we’re… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Ultimately...woman's equality is not derived from any theory of human nature but rather from concepts of justice, equality and the integrity of… — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state. — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own… — Bobbie Oliver Copy Share Image
These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
The chakra is a doorway. These are doorways that lead you into other dimensions. But you have to focus on them to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is… — Uzoma Nnadi Copy Share Image
For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is important to have intensive blocks of time together. During our nights together there is a tremendous interchange of knowledge, power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“it is not because they run out of sky that birds turn back, it is because they lack the strength to keep… — chandrakirti Copy Share Image
Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think more like a quantum Buddhist, in that there is a universal proto-conscious mind which we access, and can influence us.… — Stuart Hameroff Copy Share Image
Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
