“A bird doesn’t attempt to swim, and a cat doesn’t attempt to fly. Yet both are completely content. Their dharma is anchored… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me. — Frank Hall Copy Share Image
“The service that the whole world needs from the elders is not the service of hours spent and time put in and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“A man's mind may make him a Buddha, or it may make him a beast. Misled by error, one becomes a demon; enlightened, one… — Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“him the ordinary man whose Buddhist spirituality often flickered, really just questing for inner silence with not too much of an outer… — Marie-Claire Blais Copy Share Image
“Look at this leaf. When you’re standing close to it you can see every single detail of the leaf. You may think… — Melissa Rose Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Even when I thought, with most other well-informed, though unscholarly, people, that Buddhism and Christianity were alike, there was one thing about… — Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If a man purposely does me wrong,” a Buddhist says, “I will return him my ungrudging love; the more evil comes from… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“In what is now known as Bodh Gaya…a Buddhist temple stands beside an ancient pipal, descended from that bodhi tree, or “enlightenment… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures]… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
A certain amount of the kundalini is always floating through the ida and the pingala. These two little nerve tubes, on either… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Pema Chodron, an ordained Buddhist nun, writes of compassion and suggests that its truest measure lies not in our service of those… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their… — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness” is the purest mindlessness. It is the great and perverse desire to annihilate consciousness and exist in an eternal now of… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they don't understand what's… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“After a week in front of the screen, the opportunity to work with my hands—with all my senses, in fact—is always a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Buddhism allows me to feel well, tranquil, and very happy inside. This is good not only for football but for my life… — Roberto Baggio Copy Share Image
Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Not only was the theory of evolution not invented by Darwin himself; it wasn’t invented by his Enlightenment predecessors either. It was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
![“Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures] that should ever lead anyone to become intolerant. Our goal as Buddhists is to learn to accept all kinds of people and to help all kinds of people discover the wisdom of the…” quote by Hsing Yun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c68/hsing-yun-53350_accepting_tolerance-is-a-form-of-generosity-and-it_2770074.jpg)
