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
Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones,… — Ye Xiaowen Copy Share Image
Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death… — William Empson Copy Share Image
Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Even in zazen you will lose yourself. When you become sleepy, or when your mind starts to wander about, you lose yourself.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Buddha-nature may be compared with the sun, and individual mind with the sky. Then an Enlightened mind is like the sky in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“***Not Religious October 31, 2017 I am an ordained Lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan… — Doug "Ten" Rose Copy Share Image
I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a… — Tom Robbins 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
One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love -… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present;… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Premodern traditions of knowledge such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Confucianism asserted that everything that is important to know about the world… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The white light is the joker in the deck. It creates transmutations that are completely unpredictable, which is what makes it fun,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“By the time you have a child and realise that you had a big void in you devoid of fatherly love and… — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, "Listen Godzilla, you don't have to do all… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never… — Gabriel Shaw Copy Share Image
In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
As you absorb more mystical kundalini, you will able to perform a few minor miracles. As you do this, you run a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
