The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let us respect and honor all who seek enlightenment through love and understanding; also, let us not disregard nor silence religion, the… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
“What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this movement… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And so I pray like I'm a Pentecostal, Sufi, Buddhist, strict agnostic. Hoping one will hit it's target, take another sip of… — Jean Grae Copy Share Image
When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic… — Howard Fast Copy Share Image
“...if we seek the permanence of an object as something existing from its own side, we discover something inexpressible. If we take… — Zongtrul Losang Tsöndru Copy Share Image
Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Mountain’s realization comes through the details of the breath, mountain appears in each step. Mountain then lives inside our bones, inside our… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It’s… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“If there is a person of the highest grade of understanding, he may first of all learn the most profound, next the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
In the Buddhist tradition, where mindful meditation comes from, anger is regarded as a somewhat unhealthy,unskillful emotion because we can be blinded… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Nothing is required for this enlightenment except freedom; and the freedom in question is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I and the Great Earth and all sentient beings simultaneously attain enlightenment.” — Stephan Schuhmacher Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When we extinguish our ideas of more and less, is and is not, we attain the extinction of ideas and notions, which… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Here, the certain temple rule, this seems to me to have a certain responsibility to look after the well-being of society and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most of you are predominantly nagual. You have trouble with the physical life because you have devoted more of your attention to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A Buddhist teacher once said that a poisonous snake is only poisonous when you walk toward it.” — Daniel Gottlieb Copy Share Image
