“Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.… — Arthur Austen Douglas Copy Share Image
There are many different places of power around the world. They're invisible openings to other worlds. We find a preponderance of these… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An act of meditation is actually an act of faith--of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis… — Martine Batchelor Copy Share Image
The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“The term satipaṭṭhāna can be explained as a compound of sati , "mindfulness" or "awareness", and upaṭṭhāna , with the u of… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Mountain’s realization comes through the details of the breath, mountain appears in each step. Mountain then lives inside our bones, inside our… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness” is the purest mindlessness. It is the great and perverse desire to annihilate consciousness and exist in an eternal now of… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
“Kundalini means, according to Zeena ‘She Who is Hidden,’ and points to the dormant goddess in every human being’s body. While the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Religion is inevitably something that demands faith , or belief from us. Given the variety of forms of religion, it is natural… — Tagawa Shun'ei Copy Share Image
“Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-traumatic cost. Only such… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Much of the Buddhist aspiration revolves around mastering this internal reality, fortifying it, and cutting all external strings that might be attached… — Michael Williams Copy Share Image
People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that… — Rajneesh 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
“That’s why the coffee house in the Age of Enlightenment and the Parisian salons of modernism were such engines of creativity; they… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
When Zen masters say 'effortlessness' they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
“The perfume of incense reminds us of the pervading influence of virtue, the lamp reminds us of light of knowledge and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Freedom, as I have been taught to understand as a political being in exile- to be protected by law, to be able… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Copy Share Image
“The Heart-mantra of Dependent Origination (rten-'brel snying-po [རྟེན་འབྲེལ་སྙིང་པོ]), which liberates the enduring continuum of phenomena and induces the appearance of multiplying relics… — Graham Coleman Copy Share Image
“The Buddhist precepts are different from the Confucian teachings in the form of expression, but they agree in their warning against the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic,… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
“On the philosophic side the disciples of the Great Master dashed themselves against the eternal rocks of the Vedas and could not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
You don't want to know the Truth, you want to know the truth as you understand it. This is the greatest barrier… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“According to Kant, the motto of this new era, which came to be known as the Enlightenment, was “Dare to know!”—Sapere aude!… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“We love them those who shown their care to us, We Love them who respect us. We Love them, who help us.… — Suman Jyoty Bhante Copy Share Image
On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“One needs to be more vitally conscious of what is happening now. This is not to deny the reality of past and… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I am a warrior What I fight against is sensual gratification. I am a killer What I kill is ego. I am… — Abishek Bikram Shah Copy Share Image
“There are major revolutions every few hundred years--humanity seems to depend on things being shaken up from time to time, to remind… — K.J. Wetherholt Copy Share Image
![“In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not really terrorists at all, just good folks trying to liberate people from technology and fight against an American government/corporation trying to coopt our souls. The…” quote by Alexander Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/95d/alexander-weinstein-17341_american-government_in-the-story-the-pyramid-and-the-ass-the_2664321.jpg)
![“The Heart-mantra of Dependent Origination (rten-'brel snying-po [རྟེན་འབྲེལ་སྙིང་པོ]), which liberates the enduring continuum of phenomena and induces the appearance of multiplying relics ('phel-gdung [འཕེལ་གདུང་] and rainbow lights, is: [OṂ] YE DHARMĀ HETUPRABHAVĀ HETUN TEṢĀṂ TATHĀGATO HY AVADAT…” quote by Graham Coleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b54/graham-coleman-144287_buddhism_the-heart-mantra-of-dependent-originatio_1492761.jpg)
