"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don't know. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist,… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Amputechture' is my personal way of describing enlightenment, or just the celebration of this person who is a shaman and not a… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
“Separating the God question from Buddhism does not make Buddhists atheists—within silence lies mystery. That doesn’t mean, however, we should infer from… — Andrew Furst Copy Share Image
We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“The whole point of meditation is not to follow the path laid down by thought to what it considers to be truth,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I know a wise Buddhist monk who, in a speech to his fellow countrymen, once said he'd love to know why someone… — Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich Copy Share Image
A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
