You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“The victorious ones have said That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has… — Nāgārjuna Copy Share Image
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones,… — Ye Xiaowen Copy Share Image
The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Almost every culture has its own version of “forty days and forty nights,” where some young person is sent into the wilderness… — Gary Sizer Copy Share Image
“consider," replies the geomancer, "--adam and eve ate fruit from a tree, and were enlighten'd. the buddha sat beneath a tree, and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Life is a groundless ground: no sooner does it appear, than it disappears, only to renew itself, then immediately break up and… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Committing myself to the task of becoming fully human is saving my life now...to become fully human is something extra, a conscious… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“The secret of enlightenment is the absolute, unequivocal conviction that it exists. What does that mean? It means you have discovered an… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Mind is pure and bright in its essence. It is always free from passions and mean desires, just as the sun is… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love -… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When human women are said to be traps that lead to the downfall of men, Buddhist philosophers and psychologists would insist that… — Liz Wilson Copy Share Image
If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, "Listen Godzilla, you don't have to do all… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never… — Gabriel Shaw Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“By the time you have a child and realise that you had a big void in you devoid of fatherly love and… — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The white light is the joker in the deck. It creates transmutations that are completely unpredictable, which is what makes it fun,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
