Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Lord Krishna says, “Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself. I am born in age after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Experience can be a very bad teacher, indeed, or not teacher at all. It is like the silly phrase, “Practice makes perfect.”… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I read in some book that if you try to hold people back too much when they’re dying it keeps them from… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“He considered China’s interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not… — Donald Keene Copy Share Image
...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . . — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Clarity clattered into my thoughts and brought about a satori, an enlightenment, if you will.” — Stuart Ayris Copy Share Image
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant,… — 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
The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. — Buddha Copy Share Image
“There are five major religions formally recognized today: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Each is absolutlely certain that they know for… — Jim Vuksic Copy Share Image
“The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them.… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. — Pat Buckley Copy Share Image
There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One of the beautiful things about Buddhism is that it does not worship Buddha as a god or deity, but instead celebrates… — Lodro Rinzler Copy Share Image
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
