...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . . — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Not only was the theory of evolution not invented by Darwin himself; it wasn’t invented by his Enlightenment predecessors either. It was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Open up to the other dimensional planes so you can penetrate the mysteries of existence and enjoy the wonder of being, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Maybe it shouldn’t surprise us that Buddhism, with all its early austerity, was founded by a man who, as a member of… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“The forms of the central and surrounding deities... should not be protruding like a clay statue or cast image, yet neither should… — Jigme Lingpa Copy Share Image
“No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“The return and reintegration with society, which is indispensable to the continuous circulation of spiritual energy into the world, and which, from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Zen Buddhism is a way and a view of life which does not belong to any of the formal categories of modern… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“As beings possessing reason, men “are all equal, and equals can have no right over each other,” wrote seventeenth-century English politician Algernon… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves. — Milarepa Copy Share Image
You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant. — Steven Cojocaru Copy Share Image
Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The circumstances of confusion will be your path to enlightenment' - Thursday Next” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
