When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“lack of self-confidence was considered, in Buddhism, to be a form of laziness,” — David Michie Copy Share Image
Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
“A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.” — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world is a testament to impermanence and uncertain futures, enjoy this day. — Devin Waugh Copy Share Image
“Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
There's many kinds of kundalini, just as there's a spectrum of light. Put light through a prism and you get different gradations.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“ENJOY BEING ALIVE To breathe and know you are alive is wonderful. Because you are alive, everything is possible. The Sangha, the… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“you know when i was a little kid in oregon i didn't feel that i was and american at all, with all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of… — Gail Mazur Copy Share Image
“We are like the poor son and the Buddha is like the rich father. We may feel no connection, or we may… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
“Hans W. Frei argues that the Enlightenment period was liable for a significant portion of the eclipse of the biblical narratives. In… — Michael Matthews Copy Share Image
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The way is yours for the asking - the way is yours for the taking. The way is as it should be.” — Karen Hackel Copy Share Image
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation? — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Ignorance causes pain, but awareness creates happiness. Therefore, look for enlightenment every day.” — Linda Alfiori Copy Share Image
There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
