There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those… — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am not into any religions. I have been mostly influenced by Eastern religions - Taoism, the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism.… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
“In our time, the world created by the Enlightenment is strong, active, and exuberant. For a while in the past century, socialists… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
There are also places of power that reference the fourth and fifth chakras, which are places of balance, and places of power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When did you last unravel the knots in your intestines by feeding only the emotions your stomach needs? - Dharma ” — Sophie McKeand Copy Share Image
“Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we… — Tom Cowan Copy Share Image
“If you were given to thinking of numbers as having human-like qualities, you might picture e^i*pi as a guru into transcendental meditation… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Before his death the Buddha asked his disciples to follow the Dharma, not any teacher or tradition. He put no one over… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
“While freedom gives rise to growth and enlightenment, permission allows evil to flourish in a light of day that would otherwise destroy… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
People can be free from suffering if people give up selfish desires for power, wealth, and pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China) what enlightenment was,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
I am a warrior What I fight against is sensual gratification. I am a killer What I kill is ego. I am… — Abishek Bikram Shah Copy Share Image
“As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Being free is as difficult and as perpetual — or rather fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as "I AM." YOU ARE… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
... many Hindus are willing to consider Jesus as a legitimate manifestation of the divine... many Buddhists see Jesus as one of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“For me, Buddhism is like a living organism. If it is to flourish outside self-enclosed ghettos of believers, it will have to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“energy so abundantly that be could talk with a voice sounding as a large bell. Being asked by Wang the secret of… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception of reality was adopted by… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
