Buddhism Quotes · Page 134

Just as the DNA is a structure of double helical bonds, so your being is a structure of elements, not physical elements,…

— Frederick Lenz

“If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other,…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries…

— Frederick Lenz

“Buddhist teachings put it this way: “Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so do all…

— Jack Kornfield

It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be…

— Frederick Lenz

“The tyranny of a majority can be just as cruel as the tyranny of a single dictator, depending on the degree of…

— John Hospers

As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to…

— Frederick Lenz

“We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should…

— Shantideva

“If you’re intentionally seeking enlightenment, which manifests as a desire to discover your relationship with the Universe, you’ll use your so-called problems…

— Anonymous

“be refreshing.” Ranger smiled. “There are times when I seriously consider marrying you, but then I get yet another black mark on…

— Janet Evanovich

“To realize the Enlightenment ideals of formal equality, the rule of law, freedom of commerce, and religious toleration, Voltaire and many of…

— Jerry Z. Muller

Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not…

— Frederick Lenz

“As much as the scientific community currently enthralled with mindfulness would like to set aside the ethical component of the Buddhist tradition…

— Andrew Olendzki

“We are all divine spirits, helping others on conscious and unconscious levels. The past, present, and future exist simultaneously—all lives, all events…

— Elizabeth Herrera

Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work…

— Dalai Lama

If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the…

— Frederick Lenz

If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to…

— Frederick Lenz

People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble,…

— Frederick Lenz

The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what…

— Frederick Lenz

Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop…

— Tiger Woods

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense…

— Rachel Griffiths

When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's…

— Frederick Lenz

“The Buddhists had a helpful analogy here. Picture the mind like a waterfall, they said: the water is the torrent of thoughts…

— Dan Harris

The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind,…

— Frederick Lenz

It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you…

— Frederick Lenz

The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that…

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to…

— Frederick Lenz

Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the…

— Frederick Lenz

Of course, there are the old hardcore teacher types like me who sit around and tell jokes, realizing, what's the difference anyway…

— Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have…

— Frederick Lenz

Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in…

— Frederick Lenz

If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world.…

— Frederick Lenz

Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body; that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting…

— Frederick Lenz

If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a…

— Frederick Lenz

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the…

— Voltaire

By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain…

— Matthieu Ricard

I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think…

— Mother Teresa

It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that…

— Ben Domenech

So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be…

— Frederick Lenz

One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There…

— Frederick Lenz