Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Zen Buddhist scholar Daisetz T. Suzuki said, "If one really wishes to be master of an art, technical knowledge of it is… — Dov Seidman Copy Share Image
I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The dharma teaches us the impermanence of all phenomena, but you cannot prepare yourself for the loss of the phenomenon you love… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that whatever we encounter in life, we want to encourage a balance between the mind and the soul...and that is… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“If a man speaks many holy words but he speaks and does not, this thoughtless man cannot enjoy the life of holiness:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The primary aim of an Enlightenment is to make peope realize their potential for enlightenment. That enlightenment is not for the selected… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Breathing mindfully, you are already finding a refuge in your breath, and you become aware of what’s going on in your body,… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“The public education system did not promote the enlightenment of the individual, but rather suppressed critical thought and neurodiversity. It produced preformatted,… — Rajinder Jhol Copy Share Image
Chakras really are dimensions. We think of them as objects, but they're not really. They're dimensional access points, whereby we can enter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
Palestinians are Christian, Muslims, atheist, Buddhist - you name it. And the majority I know have nothing against Judaism and everything against… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never… — Kentetsu Takamori Copy Share Image
The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. — M. Scott Peck 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
“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
