“The Buddha, Christ and Mohammed had to rely on God and karma and human priests for judgement; we don’t. We have data.… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“Kant is sometimes considered to be an advocate of reason. Kant was in favor of science, it is argued. He emphasized the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Dharmas (religions) are of many kinds. There is mansik dharma (religion of the mind) and there are so many stratums to it.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you're not going… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When I missed the physical body of my partner, I meditated on its parts, tossed by the waves, torn, dispersed, and deteriorated.… — Dang Nghiem Copy Share Image
You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“You cannot simply take a mala from someone else and start using it. When you buy a mala you have to make… — Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche Copy Share Image
There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
During the Enlightenment, there were brilliant thinkers who realized that, if you assume most people are naturally selfish and you construct the… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Well neither of us were "Buddhists" then because it was new to us. We were 60's people. Psychedelic relics, you know... whatever,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
“The Ornament of Sutras says: It is said that enlightenment is attained By those nonconceptual bodhisattvas Who regard all that has been… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“Since the Enlightenment, in the great tension between rationalism (how we would like things to be so they make sense to us)… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“There is one element in Christianity which was not borrowed from Paganism -- religious intolerance. Referring to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, a… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
“what Tibetan Buddhists call “the inability to bear the sight of another’s sorrow,” so that we feel it almost as intensely as… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've always had these morals I've sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
You exist forever. You've always existed and you'll always exist. You move in and out of bodies like some people in Los… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them, to learn to be perfect in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one.… — Monica Drake Copy Share Image
“13. A Buddha In Tokyo in th Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in… — Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps Copy Share Image
I have been following Buddhism since 11 years now. I love the sound of chanting. — Sourabh Raj Jain Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, with the growth of publishing and with the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment, there was a great demand… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before enlightenment, cop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water ... but no longer trip over things at night. — Skye Milo Copy Share Image
All things are divine. And yet, we pick and choose among them what's appropriate. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
