“6. Nature Favours Nothing in Particular. There is another point of view of life, which gave the present writer no small contentment,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Whether pilgrim or wayfarer, while seeking to be taught the Truth (or something), the disciple learns only that there is nothing that… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I meditate, people see manifestations of light when I go into samadhi and through the samadhis. Sometimes the energy of enlightenment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are… — Hsin Hsin Ming Copy Share Image
One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the works of… — Peter of Blois Copy Share Image
When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“How can a lama say enlightenment is for all beings, yet when he sees me, a woman, he does not give me… — Perri Birney Copy Share Image
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Karma is the record of services. Karma is the term used in Buddhist teaching. Taoists use the term te. Christians us the… — Zhi Gang Sha Copy Share Image
There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Governments, churches, and educational institutes, once the keepers of order and social enlightenment, are now scrambling to remain relevant as our collective… — George Takei Copy Share Image
The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We live our lives based on the assumption that we directly perceive, and are accurately interpreting, objects with a fair amount of… — Tagawa Shun'ei Copy Share Image
When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
The source of their motivation ranges from what you might expect - from the seeking of money and publicity, to those who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Pāli term for "feeling" is vedanā , derived from the verb vedeti , which means both "to feel" and "to know".… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
“The last great poem has already been written and will continue to write itself until you accept that you are the author… — Sophie McKeand Copy Share Image
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“On the philosophic side the disciples of the Great Master dashed themselves against the eternal rocks of the Vedas and could not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“[O]ne could assume an incompatibility, at one and the same level of reference, between two philosophical propositions, both of which cannot be… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. It certainly changed me for… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image