“To practice tantra requires even greater compassion and greater intelligence than are required on the sutra path; thus, though many persons in… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“our nature is the mind. and the mind is our nature.this nature is the same as the mind of all buddhas. buddhas… — bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just… — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Copy Share Image
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another’s path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“A pozitív gondolkodás fogalma eredetileg egy ősi buddhista hagyomány nyomán jött létre. Fönnmaradt egy legenda, miszerint Buddha és a tanítványai néztek egy… — Popper Péter Copy Share Image
“The question is not “Can you make a difference?” You already do make a difference. It’s just a matter of what kind… — Julia Butterfly Hill Copy Share Image
The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Anticipating the collapse of secular reason, Hamann thus brings us to a decidedly postmodern crossroads, at which point one can take the… — Gene Edward Veith Jr Copy Share Image
“The human mind has the potential for infinite development. If you can discover, even in a small way, that true satisfaction comes… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“According to the Buddhist tradition, the spiritual path is the process of cutting through our confusion, of uncovering the awakened state of… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“No, on the contrary! In enlightenment you have freed yourself of any sense of “I”, and you certainly have not evolved into… — Jan Esmann Copy Share Image
All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
“Our Butkara ruins were a magical place to play hide-and-seek. Once some foreign archaeologists arrived to do some work there and told… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“I once found an ego, crawling around and trying to shine on me. I took it in my arms and the ego… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“We agreed that at least to some extent the whole punk movement is based on the Buddha's 1st noble truth of suffering… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Each person is born with an unencumbered spot, free of expectation and regret, free of ambition and embarrassment, free of fear and… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Thinking that we can find some lasting pleasure and avoid pain is what in Buddhism is called samsara, a hopeless cycle that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The self does not exist “from its own side,” [...] as an object that can be isolated and defined. The more you… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Karma is the record of services. Karma is the term used in Buddhist teaching. Taoists use the term te. Christians us the… — Zhi Gang Sha Copy Share Image
“Buddhism in general and Centrism in particular is not meant as a philosophical edifice but as a set of tools for experientially… — Karl Brunnholzl 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
Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within… — Eric Allen Copy Share Image
“I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Buddha is our inherent nature—our buddha nature—and what that means is that if you’re going to grow up fully, the way that… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Refutations of the views of inherently existent production are not just refutations of rival systems but should be taken as a branch… — Jeffrey Hopkins Copy Share Image
“We are one multidimensional being and exist in multiple universes transcending space and time. We could also be described as multiple personalities… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“The founders of modern Burma believed that they could guarantee prosperity and happiness by correctly choosing the moment for the rebirth of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there's a lot of history… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
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