The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a difference between willing and forcing. Willing something simply means you are not being lazy. Forcing something means you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We must admit that very often we are afraid or ashamed to look at our own minds. So we prefer to avoid… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Old man,” she said. “Don’t you want to prepare or something?” “Prepare what?” “Yourself. For death.” Siri laughed. “Well, Bpoo. Let’s see.… — Colin Cotterill Copy Share Image
“All in Good Time. The ancient Buddhist saying shares, “When the student is ready, the master will appear.” When the timing is… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Since I was a big reader, I might be able to accomplish something. I had no gift. That didn’t mean I must… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“What is enlightenment? In its most basic form, it is abiding inner silence. It is directly and automatically experiencing who and what… — Yogani Copy Share Image
“6. Nature Favours Nothing in Particular. There is another point of view of life, which gave the present writer no small contentment,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I'm a Buddhist. You might have a Christian obligation to catch pneumonia while you sit for two and a half hours listening… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm vegan, Buddhist, minimalist, an actor. I'm very friendly, though. If I wasn't I think it would be easier to be, like,… — Claudia Jessie Copy Share Image
Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is… — Shoitsu Omatsu Copy Share Image
Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however,… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
To become more aware, it is necessary to do something that you haven't done. Everything that you have done will only make… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
