“A bird doesn’t attempt to swim, and a cat doesn’t attempt to fly. Yet both are completely content. Their dharma is anchored… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me. — Frank Hall Copy Share Image
“The service that the whole world needs from the elders is not the service of hours spent and time put in and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“A man's mind may make him a Buddha, or it may make him a beast. Misled by error, one becomes a demon; enlightened, one… — Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“him the ordinary man whose Buddhist spirituality often flickered, really just questing for inner silence with not too much of an outer… — Marie-Claire Blais Copy Share Image
“Look at this leaf. When you’re standing close to it you can see every single detail of the leaf. You may think… — Melissa Rose Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Even when I thought, with most other well-informed, though unscholarly, people, that Buddhism and Christianity were alike, there was one thing about… — Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If a man purposely does me wrong,” a Buddhist says, “I will return him my ungrudging love; the more evil comes from… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“In what is now known as Bodh Gaya…a Buddhist temple stands beside an ancient pipal, descended from that bodhi tree, or “enlightenment… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures]… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
A certain amount of the kundalini is always floating through the ida and the pingala. These two little nerve tubes, on either… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Pema Chodron, an ordained Buddhist nun, writes of compassion and suggests that its truest measure lies not in our service of those… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their… — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
