Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes open and closed. Most people find that it is easier… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In the Buddhist tradition, there is an image known as the wheel of samsara. Samsara means the cycle of death and rebirth… — Frank Ostaseski Copy Share Image
“The reference in the text to “noble sons and noble daughters” has additional significance that modern practitioners should bear in mind. This… — Thupten Jinpa Copy Share Image
“Neither these men of the world nor Buddhist ascetics can be optimists. The latter rigorously deny themselves sensual gratifications, and keep themselves… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The world would have us fill every space and occupy every corner of the mind. Yoga asks us to become empty; to… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Just calling one's practice "approach and accomplishment" and staying in retreat for years will produce nothing but hardship. Completing hundreds of millions… — Patrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of… — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
“The whole world is the same single community; each and everyone learns there's nothing to do. This is the very place to… — Layman Pang Copy Share Image
Today, my heart and soul lives peacefully for the hope that the 21st century will have to face a great challenge, a… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Officially an atheist country, China technically recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism. But while China seemingly 'promotes' freedom of… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give… — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.” — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
