“The consciousness inhabiting your body is exactly the same as the consciousness inhabiting my body. We are one. The delusion that we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
You're looking for purity, something that just isn't all garbled, someplace where you can feel the earth again, where you can feel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century, Buddhism and Taoism gained many adherents in Europe who banged gongs and breathed through their diaphragm and talked… — Patrik Ouředník Copy Share Image
When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“On the Brevity of Our Ties Ties in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and… — Kentetsu Takamori Copy Share Image
Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't… — Olivia Hussey Copy Share Image
That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If, on the other hand, I relate to others from the perspective of myself as someone different—a Buddhist, a Tibetan, and so… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
Beyond this world are countless dimensions. They stretch on forever. You can travel to them and have experiences in them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence… — Bill W Copy Share Image
You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change.” — Pat Allwright Copy Share Image
“it is not because they run out of sky that birds turn back, it is because they lack the strength to keep… — chandrakirti Copy Share Image
There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism is the opposite of love,’ I said, recalling one of Khaderbhai’s lectures. A wise man once told me—he’s a Muslim, by… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself. — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical… — RZA Copy Share Image
“All of us must go through the dance of searching out the answers for enlightenment about God. Sometimes all we get are… — Nancy Phippen Browne Copy Share Image
Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your everyday experiences for signs… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
“When human women are said to be traps that lead to the downfall of men, Buddhist philosophers and psychologists would insist that… — Liz Wilson Copy Share Image
It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The road to spiritual enlightenment is an individual experience. The spiritual leader, guru, master or teacher is only a portion of that… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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