Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't be offended by your lack of purity. Purity is a seed that will grow and develop. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Perhaps our matching black outfits - even Phoebe wears dark colors - convince him that we are lesbian Buddhists” — Helen Smith Copy Share Image
Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.” — Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla Copy Share Image
Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind, Veil after veil will lift--but there must be… — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment… — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
Well Buddhism, 'shmoodism', I didn't go to India looking for Buddhism. I was looking for truth, or God, or a better way… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need to work yourself up into some kind of a state every morning and believe that you are doing something terribly… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
In terms of technology and science, tomorrow does know more than yesterday; but when it comes to emotions, living with uncertainty, terror,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I've learned much from the land of many gods and many ways to worship. From Buddhism the power to begin to manage… — Sarah Macdonald Copy Share Image
“So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purification of mind is for the sake… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To each his own. A billion Buddhas. A billion streams of wisdom. All smiling in their anguish.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen. — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness. — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
I want, I want, I want! We never grow out of it somehow. Unless we become Buddhists, maybe. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...” — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. — Buddha Copy Share Image
You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Stay true to the idea of dharma. Be the best you can be, in the worst of circumstances, even when no one… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
