The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha Gautama Buddha realized, balance is the key to enlightenment.” — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad. — Jet Li Copy Share Image
A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Unluckily, Governments cannot be enlightened, and a Government which regards itself as a diffuser of light is the least open to enlightenment.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“If we can't prevent nuclear disaster that will be not just a political failure, but be the highest spiritual failure of mankind.… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“I am not so foolish as to equate what happens under the influence of mescalin or of any other drug, prepared or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is… — Indra Sinha Copy Share Image
“No label can define the immensity of your True nature. You are the awareness that precedes every label, the awareness that is… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“But when, from the midst of the printed page, there suddenly sprang out at her these words: 'Here I stand; I can… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
