“Eating, drinking, arising, awaking are all dharma (functions) of the body. One has not come within atmadharma (religion of the Soul) even… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being sad is a state of distress, being happy is a state of excitement, being blissful is a state of enlightenment. Have… — Nagaraj Copy Share Image
The most important thing is sensitivity. Many people have sex and don't feel anything, and that seems kind of sad to me.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Vitrag speech begins when one attains Samyakatva (the right belief that I am Pure Soul), and it becomes absolute when Keval Gnan… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“We have to establish ourselves in the here and now in order to truly eat. All through the meal, we should really… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“…When the secret is discovered, when the Truth is seen, all the forces which feverishly produce the continuity of samsara in illusion… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“These classes, according to the degree of enlightenment at which they have arrived, may propose to themselves two very different ends, when… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
What if there is no hell? What if there is no judgment? What if doing bad and good is a part of… — Deshawn Branch Copy Share Image
Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings. — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
“They had an old-fashioned sincerity...that touched Archy in this time when everything good in life was either synthesised in transgenic cyborg vats… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Visualize a beautiful rose in the center of your chest. Imagine a soft reddish rose. Imagine that the rose is completely folded… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“all those roads and ports, spread these belief systems faster. Some seem to have mingled ancient beliefs with Buddhist and Hindu thinking… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings… — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
“ Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma ” — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it,… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
