I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It's like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I'm doing a good job, that… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As far as miracles are concerned, I'm not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is warm puppy. In other words, happiness is the things around you. Just to see that puppy is to be happy.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“As much as the scientific community currently enthralled with mindfulness would like to set aside the ethical component of the Buddhist tradition… — Andrew Olendzki Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think that Buddhism is the toughest religion in the world. It not only eschews all talk of god but does… — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
A lot of people dabbling means Buddhism has come into the mainstream, where people begin to use these terms and ideas, and… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand… — John Green Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Buddhist monks who had practiced more than ten thousand hours of meditation, researchers at the University of Wisconsin measured significantly higher levels… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all. — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Keep your mind centered on that which leads to light, intensively. Accept no substitute. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are seven primary centers, junctions, within the subtle physical body. These are called the seven chakras. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
The kundalini is the life force; it is the essential energy of existence. It is the hidden ingredient in life. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dear ¤Buddha, I am absent this morning. Can you thinking with me how my day is going to look? — Ojale Hukom Copy Share Image
Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
Inwardly the sun also has an energy field, it has an aura, so does the earth, so does the moon, and so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
“Destructiveness cannot bring happiness; destruction is against the law of creation. The law of creation is to be creative. So Buddha says… — Osho Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
