So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Although contemplating the nature of the body highlights its less attractive features, the purpose of the exercise is not to demonize the… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
“Sarah: I can be cynical. But I don’t think of myself, at my core, as cynical. So much of it is location.… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Essentially, this extra structure covering our life has no reality. It has come to be there because of the misuse of our… — Charlotte J. Beck Copy Share Image
To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we… — Howard Cutler Copy Share Image
In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The Buddha would not have liked people to call themselves Buddhist. To him that would have been a fundamental error because there… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
“Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Buddha told his disciple Ananda to see impermanence, to see death with every breath. We must know death; we must die… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that the whole stigma of the name may still burn deep with some of the Native people, but there are… — Donte Stallworth Copy Share Image
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“To be enlightened is always to be enlightened about something. I am enlightened about the fact that I am drinking a glass… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly, are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Change is the very nature of Nature. if there's one thing that doesn't change, it is the fact that everything changes. In… — Ilchi Lee 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
Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the… — Brian Stock Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: "You need the intention, good scheduling,… — Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel Dakini Power Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Copy Share Image
“Or the Japanese may go in an entirely different direction—an interesting possibility, given that the West itself has now begun to question… — Patrick Smith Copy Share Image
“If we can unify the apparent duality between the great uncontrollable energy and the natural wisdom of our monkey mind, if we… — Oeset Drakir Copy Share Image
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves.… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
As far as miracles are concerned, I'm not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The reasonableness of the universe provides us with access to God's Reason, and the Bible is and continues to be the true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“We are not told of things that happened to specific people exactly as they happened; but the beginning is when there are… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Let us respect and honor all who seek enlightenment through love and understanding; also, let us not disregard nor silence religion, the… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
“Whether pilgrim or wayfarer, while seeking to be taught the Truth (or something), the disciple learns only that there is nothing that… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
