We are not really separate beings of light. That's a dream we are having, the dream of multiplicity. Meditation takes us beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Since I was a big reader, I might be able to accomplish something. I had no gift. That didn’t mean I must… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“What is enlightenment? In its most basic form, it is abiding inner silence. It is directly and automatically experiencing who and what… — Yogani Copy Share Image
“All in Good Time. The ancient Buddhist saying shares, “When the student is ready, the master will appear.” When the timing is… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Old man,” she said. “Don’t you want to prepare or something?” “Prepare what?” “Yourself. For death.” Siri laughed. “Well, Bpoo. Let’s see.… — Colin Cotterill Copy Share Image
At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“[Beings with such realization] do not behold sentient beings, but great compassion still flowers in them. They do not behold themselves either,… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“The Mahabharata reminds us that it is natural and desirable for human beings to want happiness and pleasure as they seek to… — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The only real flesh was the flesh that existed in his imagination. Since, therefore, he regarded the flesh as an ideal abstraction,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Oneness and individuality coexist. There is no question about the importance and uniqueness of each individual life. However, difference is no difference.… — Gyomay M Kubose Copy Share Image
We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism suggests that you have that choice; you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.” — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
Duality is a part of reality, and there is definitely winning and losing. If you don't think so talk to someone who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a power in the land in Concord, in Lincoln, in the western Boston suburbs. There's an inter-dimensional vortex that opens… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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