As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“How can a lama say enlightenment is for all beings, yet when he sees me, a woman, he does not give me… — Perri Birney Copy Share Image
Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to… — Ron Starbuck Copy Share Image
“If you take an objection in the ‘relative’, it is intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ don’t have intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ are abuddha (do not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment diamond-shaped society, with a huge, prosperous, socially-mobile, empowered middle class, is by far the most productive and creative system the… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I lacked certainty, too,” he says. “I have the certainty, now, of not needing certainty. I have the… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment… — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
“We too, must overcome our own Mara, those things that arise in our minds to try to become discouraged and give up… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
You need to work yourself up into some kind of a state every morning and believe that you are doing something terribly… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
In terms of technology and science, tomorrow does know more than yesterday; but when it comes to emotions, living with uncertainty, terror,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well Buddhism, 'shmoodism', I didn't go to India looking for Buddhism. I was looking for truth, or God, or a better way… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube. There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I'm not even sure that Buddhism is a religion really. It seems like more of just a spiritual practice, I'd compare it… — Sienna McQuillen Copy Share Image
“Buddhism, we say that life is like housekeeping in a dream. We may get a lot done, but in the end we… — Jamie Zeppa Copy Share Image
All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of… — Yogaswami Copy Share Image
“Smith, I distrust any kind of Buddhism or any kinda philosophy or social system that puts down sex said Japhy (Gary Snyder)” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“8. Zen is not Nihilistic. Zen judged from ancient Zen masters' aphorisms may seem, at the first sight, to be idealistic in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things… — Guo Guangchang Copy Share Image
As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I was more concerned with refining my sense of the sheer mysteriousness of life so that it infused each moment of my… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
There's a place this moment comes from, where it's made. Actually, it's like a big factory where they make moments, where they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
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