Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Buddhism, which does not center on a god, but rather on a human who said suffering arises from craving.” — FastReads Copy Share Image
The deeper side of the study occurs on levels of attention your mind is not aware of, but that your superconscious mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Chomsky reminds us of the conversations about education that took place during the Enlightenment and that continue to shape our education system… — Loren Mayshark Copy Share Image
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is quite reasonable that Zenists distinguish supernatural powers from spiritual uplifting, the former an acquirement of Devas, or of Asuras, or… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be… — Linji Yixuan Copy Share Image
Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world: Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard… — Buddha Copy Share Image
“However, one should be equally aware that, within the entirety of the Buddha's teachings of expedient and definitive meaning in his three… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Twenty years ago at a conference I attended of theologians and professors of religion, an Indian Christian friend told the assembly, “We… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our… — 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
The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.” — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal but the ultimate condition of life.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
I really like the Buddhist philosophy but that doesn't mean that I am of the religion. — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.' — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
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