Buddhism Quotes · Page 54

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

— Frederick Lenz

To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

— Frederick Lenz

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

— Sandra Cisneros

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

— Duncan Sheik

I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

— Joan Baez

Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.

— Frederick Lenz

People can be free from suffering if people give up selfish desires for power, wealth, and pleasure.

— Anonymous

Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much…

— Frederick Lenz

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly…

— George Saunders

“Enlightenment was not just Gautama Buddha's, but you too, individually, must find this new perspective of life, this new point of view…

— Gyomay M Kubose

What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something…

— Frederick Lenz

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

Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that,…

— Dalai Lama

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

— Stanislav Grof

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

— Frederick Lenz

“him the ordinary man whose Buddhist spirituality often flickered, really just questing for inner silence with not too much of an outer…

— Marie-Claire Blais

Now you are on the Buddhist way. Keep up your meditation, as there is no instant illumination. The mind moves slowly into…

— Dalai Lama

“It is quite clear, whether you read Christopher Hitchens or Friedrich Nietzsche, that the image of God running the world to which…

— N.T. Wright

“The entire virtue of religious practices can be conceived from the Buddhist tradition concerning the recitation of the name of the Lord.…

— Simone Weil

“Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through…

— Gautama Buddha

The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or…

— Amartya Sen

“To challenge the verity of one’s own beliefs is to be courageous. To separate the truth from falsity is to be wise.…

— Brian Goedken

“In these times where it has seemed dark indeed where integrity appears solely buried in legend and lore, it is an opportunity…

— Tom Althouse

Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

— Frederick Lenz

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.

— Frederick Lenz

Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another.

— Frederick Lenz

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

— Jet Li

If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy…

— Frederick Lenz

“[...] Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not.”

— Anonymous

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.

— Anonymous

“Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.”

— Allan Lokos

Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.

— Frederick Lenz

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.”

— Sharon Salzberg

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

— Pema Chodron

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

— Jack Kornfield

“(Only in a spontaneous utterance is there real, uncalculated evidence of enlightenment.)”

— Thomas Hoover

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

— Mahatma Gandhi