We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The body will blossom and fade, but you will remain after this body of yours has gone away. This knowledge allows you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences… — Suman Jyoty Bhante Copy Share Image
Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We know very well that we have ancestors. But our ancestors are not only human. We have animal ancestors; we have plant… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beingsAny attempt to understand Buddhism apart… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual,… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
“One way to think of this dignity is to equate when you are on the path with unraveling a ball of yarn.… — Lodro Rinzler Copy Share Image
“The Buddha was not full of shit when he said the cause of suffering could be uprooted and that you can put… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Today, my heart and soul lives peacefully for the hope that the 21st century will have to face a great challenge, a… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Officially an atheist country, China technically recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism. But while China seemingly 'promotes' freedom of… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Like the Buddha and Jesus, who knew they couldn’t control our lives, but could infuse lives with their selves, we have been… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.” — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
