Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god.… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
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
“An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person… — Gary Hopkins 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
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense.… — 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
Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“But when, from the midst of the printed page, there suddenly sprang out at her these words: 'Here I stand; I can… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Without ever having met the Dharma, the Buddha’s legacy to the world, and without having developed a good heart, everything we do… — Lama Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“because Buddhism, having been adopted by savage tribes as well as civilized nations, by quiet, enervated people as well as by warlike,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“How can I know these trees, how can I know you, how can I know the other if I myself am unknown… — Osho 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
I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no… — Frederick Lenz 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
“Understand that the following Enlightenment Affirmation can be said with God, Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Universe, Krishna, Yahweh, or Goddess. They are all… — Lee Vickers 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
If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others.… — Shantideva 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
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
If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“I thought I lived in a hostile world where everything feeds on everything, but now I know that I’m an immortal being… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help… — Nhat Hanh 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
I think the Buddha presents an image of someone who believes in self-control. I think he's offering, perhaps, a critique of the… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through… — Tiger Woods 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
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
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
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
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
Women vibrate at a slightly different rate that passes kundalini very easily. It is problematic though, because a woman also picks up… — 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
