“This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world… — Thubten Yeshe 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
I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they don't understand what's… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“After a week in front of the screen, the opportunity to work with my hands—with all my senses, in fact—is always a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Buddhism allows me to feel well, tranquil, and very happy inside. This is good not only for football but for my life… — Roberto Baggio Copy Share Image
Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Not only was the theory of evolution not invented by Darwin himself; it wasn’t invented by his Enlightenment predecessors either. It was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“Even in zazen you will lose yourself. When you become sleepy, or when your mind starts to wander about, you lose yourself.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They… — Tia Carrere Copy Share Image
Buddha saw dead, victims and elders then he assumed that to have life is to suffer. In contrast, 21 century A.D, I… — Voeun Tivea Copy Share Image
There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What I can do is find the keys that will plug into my own 30 years of training in Buddhism, and find… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
“Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
