Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Samsara is one flower. Nirvana is another flower. Enlightenment happens when both the flowers blooms.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth)… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“The Buddha promised redemption after thousands of deaths and rebirths, after millennia of suffering. Epicurus promised the end of all striving with… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the… — Mata Amritanandamayi 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
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Actively, we are motivated by the never-ending desires of the self. We are compelled to pursue whatever the self imagines will satisfy… — Dharma Publishing Copy Share Image
“We choose ignorance because we can . We choose awareness because we can . Samsara and nirvana are simply different points of… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Through this process, wisdom clarifies the way that the mind manufacturers emotion and karma, and finally penetrates the illusion of self. Just… — Dharma Publishing Copy Share Image
“what Nagarjuna and Candrakirti demonstrated so extensively is precisely that nothing makes sense when it is analyzed, not even such ordinary, everyday… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“And he is not at an age right for renunciation; he has not even entered the stage of the householder, as befits… — Bāṇabhaṭṭa Copy Share Image
“The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“As for karma itself, it is apparently only that which binds "jiva" (sentience, life, spirit, etc.) with "ajiva" (the lifeless, material aspect… — Mark X Copy Share Image
Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa” — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana. — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment. — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image