Buddhism Quotes · Page 29

“While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.”

— Allan Lokos

“Knowledge flourishes where words of eminent men empower the cognition of young minds with enlightenment.”

— Stephen TSJ

Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you.

— Frederick Lenz

Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

— Frederick Lenz

The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

— Frederick Lenz

The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned.

— Frederick Lenz

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

— Frederick Lenz

“Meditation doesn’t lead to enlightenment because in meditation the ego is trying to destroy the ego.”

— Donald O'Donovan

People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.

— Frederick Lenz

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

— Marianne Williamson

When you see someone's aura, it is an outer reflection of the subtle physical body. It is about the same shape as…

— Frederick Lenz

Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one…

— Frederick Lenz

“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of…

— Kamand Kojouri

When you meditate, you will care more for those around you and you will be able to do more for them, as…

— Frederick Lenz

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

— Stanislav Grof

Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should…

— Frederick Lenz

“O Manjusri, in the world, there are two types of persons who destroy the genuine dharma: those who have strong views about…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“Both outer and inner phenomena arise as a result of causes and conditions. Outer phenomena, the things of the physical world, arise…

— Dharma Publishing

“The Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche once pointed out, “If you put one hundred percent of your heart into facing yourself,…

— Lodro Rinzler

“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in…

— Pico Iyer

“Enlightenment is the emancipation of man from a state of self-imposed tutelage... of incapacity to use his own intelligence without external guidance.…

— Immanuel Kant

“There’s a story about a couple of Zen Buddhist monks. One day they leave the monastery and walk into town to buy…

— Sean Chercover

There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)…

— Peter Kreeft

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

— Pankaj Mishra

You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

— Frederick Lenz

Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.

— Frederick Lenz

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

— Dogen

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

— Frederick Lenz

Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.

— Frederick Lenz

“The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.”

— Allan Lokos

I do feel Im being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with Mortal Kombat.

— Mark Dacascos

To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

— Frederick Lenz

Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.

— Frederick Lenz

As long as you continue to run away from the world, I will not be able to show you your luminosity.

— Frederick Lenz

It's important to remember that there are countless views in infinity.

— Frederick Lenz

“The teaching of the Buddha is called the Dhamma. He did not teach Buddhism, any more than Jesus taught Christianity.”

— Ayya Khema

“As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.

— Anthony Kiedis

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

— Ann Druyan