“I once found an ego, crawling around and trying to shine on me. I took it in my arms and the ego… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the… — Yamada Koun Copy Share Image
“What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
There are all these people running all over the planet who don't see what life is for, what their own lives are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves. — Dogen Copy Share Image
We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The fundamental conflict in the spiritual quest is that ego desires spiritual enlightenment, but ego can never achieve spiritual enlightenment. Self cannot… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“Dōgen Zenji said, “To look for the Buddha dharma outside of yourself is like putting a devil on top of yourself.” Master… — Charlotte J. Beck Copy Share Image
Your dharma is what kind of work you should be doing, what kind of people you should associate with, whether you should… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A million faces of Buddha smiled at the night's futile attempt to lull the Awakened One into an ocean of dreams.” — Lidija Stankovikj Copy Share Image
When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“No, on the contrary! In enlightenment you have freed yourself of any sense of “I”, and you certainly have not evolved into… — Jan Esmann Copy Share Image
In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“people are finding that in their dramatically transformed circumstances, the old forms of faith no longer work for them: they cannot provide… — Karen Armstrong 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
“that held no tradition too sacred to question. Jesus was the first of the Enlightenment philosophers. In John 8: 4-7 speaking like… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Although a democratic government is founded upon a very simple and natural principle, it always presupposes the existence of a high degree… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“When my self is no longer the all-consuming preoccupation it once was, when I see it as one narrative thread among myriad… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I lacked certainty, too,” he says. “I have the certainty, now, of not needing certainty. I have the… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If you think the same as everybody else around you it is fair to say that you are not so much a… — Rick Page Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person. — Veronique Vienne Copy Share Image
Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Dharma literally means 'truth' or 'norm.' It is a particular way of thinking, a way of viewing the world, which is not… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“ Machik thus maintains that what is conventionally referred to as a "god" is in fact the positive nature of reflexive awareness… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
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