“After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy.… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“The Buddha may have been the Beethoven of his psychological state, but Beethoven got to where he was gradually, and still fell… — Designing the Mind Copy Share Image
The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow… — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
“...people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Laughter is spiritual health. And laughter is very unburdening. While you laugh, you can put your mind aside very easily. For a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.” — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
My mom's actually a Buddhist. My dad's a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity. — Jarome Iginla Copy Share Image
If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings… — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
“I have had great enlightenment from the writings of St. John of the Cross. When I was between seventeen and eighteen, they… — John Beevers Copy Share Image
I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“There’s a story about a couple of Zen Buddhist monks. One day they leave the monastery and walk into town to buy… — Sean Chercover Copy Share Image
“To discover a metaphysical relationship between Quality and the Buddha at some mountaintop of personal experience is very spectacular. And very unimportant.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.” — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss. — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Are you still carrying everyone who's insulted you, injured you or interfered with you? That's a lot of weight. I'd let it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
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