This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This… — Tim Ward Copy Share Image
Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Buddha isn’t a god or deity to be worshipped. He was a rebel and an overthrower, the destroyer of ignorance, the… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain… — Maggie Rowe Copy Share Image
“In the end, all any of these religions aim to do is give us hope. The main difference with Buddhism is that… — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your everyday experiences for signs… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it… — Nick Love Copy Share Image
I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Today we can see many different forms of Buddhism, such as Zen and Theravada Buddhism. All these different aspects are practices of… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Say, for example, you develop the ability to make parking meters disappear. It's probably easier to put a quarter in it. That… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
“Venetia thought of dogs as important enablers on our paths of individual enlightenment. This could manifest itself as our own personal spiritual… — Christian Howell Copy Share Image
“For Buddhists, to experience Awakening is to experience the interconnectedness that makes us all one. For Christians, to experience the Divine as… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“If there is a person of the highest grade of understanding, he may first of all learn the most profound, next the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“When we stop loving, we embrace adharma. We judge, condemn and reject people. Invalidate them in hatred. We stop being generous. Like… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“the consciousnesses who have been directly associated with ideas of enlightenment or spiritual paths will often reach a point of the admission… — Master Teacher Copy Share Image
When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
