Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“Even in zazen you will lose yourself. When you become sleepy, or when your mind starts to wander about, you lose yourself.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They… — Tia Carrere Copy Share Image
Buddha saw dead, victims and elders then he assumed that to have life is to suffer. In contrast, 21 century A.D, I… — Voeun Tivea Copy Share Image
There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What I can do is find the keys that will plug into my own 30 years of training in Buddhism, and find… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
“Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You… — Jeremy Enigk Copy Share Image
“In the 18th century, a revolution in thought, known as the Enlightenment, dragged us away from the superstition and brutality of the… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The story of the Burning House is really about our practice of Buddhism. We are constantly living in a burning house, a… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I believe that politicians have a public trust to further debates about important issues. I firmly believe that every public debate holds… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the… — Guy T. Simpson Jr Copy Share Image
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“In brief, what Centrists refute is any notion of real or absolute existence or an intrinsic nature that is attributed to any… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“A fate without happiness is sadder than a love without destiny,” said the monk. What had prompted the Buddhist monk to say… — Jeanette Ringel Copy Share Image
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone's life is one of the pathways. Your life is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We have been accustomed to look to the East -to Mesopotamia and Babylonia- for the beginning of Greek enlightenment, but probably when… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist,… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Begin to live in other levels of attention all the time whether you're at work, driving or running on the beach. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Real Buddhism is not really an “ism.” It’s a process, an awareness, an openness, a spirit of inquiry—not a belief system, or… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
