You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of assets.” — Kentetsu Takamori Copy Share Image
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Thinking that we can find some lasting pleasure and avoid pain is what in Buddhism is called samsara, a hopeless cycle that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Each person is born with an unencumbered spot, free of expectation and regret, free of ambition and embarrassment, free of fear and… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The self does not exist “from its own side,” [...] as an object that can be isolated and defined. The more you… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within… — Eric Allen Copy Share Image
We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
“The problem with car insurance is that you never know how bad your policy is until you are involved in a car… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state of mind other… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don't think so, not in the world of magic. In… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.' Merchant:… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since infinity is by its very nature infinite, then enlightenment by its very nature is infinite, and thus can be experienced in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Every one of the “great” belief systems of the world, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism, insists on women’s inferiority as an… — Rosalind Miles Copy Share Image
I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are special places on our planet, places of power, healing and renewal, places where the mind-body connection is enhanced and that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we… — Tom Cowan Copy Share Image
Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual,… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
“To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; to do good; to love and be loved; to create and to teach: these are the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A dreaming vortex is a place where it's easy to change. You come to a dreaming vortex like Hawaii to step from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better.… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
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