When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Air Loom had been constructed by the Jacobins in Paris around the time of their coup d'etat in 1793. Just as… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“I think one of the big opportunities in the spread of Buddhism to the West is that Western students of Buddhism, especially… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.” — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor is it necessarily the best; there is no such… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“[A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.] And I come here alone. For five--seven--eighteen--forty years it was in… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Buddha is our inherent nature—our buddha nature—and what that means is that if you’re going to grow up fully, the way that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Again, ancient Zenists did not claim that there was any mysterious element in their spiritual attainment, as Do-gen says[FN#259] unequivocally respecting his… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
There's lower mystical kundalini and higher mystical kundalini. There are ranges within the range. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions...worlds within worlds. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I am not nothing but this moment in the flow of life. This flow of life is not in… — Kiyozawa Manshi Copy Share Image
Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and higher imprinting that will lead you into the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
![“[A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.] And I come here alone. For five--seven--eighteen--forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry....' So it comes with all faiths.” quote by Rudyard Kipling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e68/rudyard-kipling-527_buddhism_a-buddhist-monk-on-a-pilgrimage-speaks-t_2948002.jpg)
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