When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often… — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist. — Ray Wylie Hubbard Copy Share Image
“First, contrary to popular belief, Buddhists can actually be very anxious people. That’s often why they become Buddhists in the first place.… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“…I told Jack I had nothing to say about his vision of God. I couldn’t believe in God myself. In his next… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
It's good to visit Hawaii if you're seeking power. You don't really need to live here. Just to come over for a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are… — Geshe Gyeltsen Copy Share Image
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I do feel Im being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with Mortal Kombat. — Mark Dacascos Copy Share Image
There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The concept (of happiness) is universal. In Buddhism, it is called causeless joy, in Christianity, the kingdom of heaven within, and in… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Heaven is the natural spaciousness of our mind before we make it small with self-protection.” — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Even the busiest bee does not move from one flower to another as often as an untamed mind moves from one thought… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Purity is very fragile when it takes physical manifestation. It is very, very strong in its original aspect. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Today, as you prepare for beginning the third week of practice I encourage you to write down some things that you may… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“It is because we feel that we are separate from nature that we also feel it is okay to manipulate it, pollute… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“true enlightenment comes only through contemplation and introspection.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
You work many hours. It is the major activity of your life. You can lose a lot of energy or gain a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
