My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment,… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something,… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Do a strong work meditation all day. You won't be as exhausted as everyone else because you have been gaining a kind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists. — Dogen Copy Share Image
“The Dalai Lama began by saying it’s not possible for everyone to be a Christian or a Buddhist. “There’s no other choice… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
If you go too far, it'll blow your mind. I mean it's strong out there. If you go out too far beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“All dharma teachings agree on one point—lessening one’s self-absorption” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Buddhists are right. Guilty men are not sentenced to death, they are sentenced to life.” — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I traveled around America and then at nineteen, went to Europe and hitchhiked from London to the Himalayas in India. I studied… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is learning how to deal with traffic. It requires patience, a good sense of timing, and sometimes not giving in to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focus on the heart center and feel love. There is a flower there, but it's like a rose folded up. As you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
By the dharma is meant the heart, for there is no dharma apart from the heart. — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't worry about techniques. Don't worry about chakras. Instead, concern yourself with finding the dharma and meditate. Then the kundalini will release. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A long time ago individuals looked at life and saw that most people aren't happy. They saw this was obviously an inefficient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of… — Gail Mazur Copy Share Image
“the Visuddhimagga. This fifth-century text, which means Path to Purification in Pali (the language of Buddhism’s earliest canon),” — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant. — Steven Cojocaru Copy Share Image
In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
