Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The modern period is defined by a distinctive worldview, forged in all its essentials during the Enlightenment, which we’ll label “modernism” for… — Heath White Copy Share Image
Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Success does not necessarily create happiness. I could take you on a tour of West Lost Angeles. You would be surprised that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am proud that London is a city where, the vast majority of the time, Jewish people, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, those… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
“With some gratitude, I realized that my awareness was now stronger than my neurosis. This did not mean that things would never… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Further, if Spirit has any meaning at all, then it must be eternal, or without beginning or end. If Spirit had a… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
“They’re so silent!” I said. “Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Wife indeed!" laughed Monkey. "You haven't got a wife now. There are some sorts of Taoists that are family men; but who… — Cheng-en Wu Copy Share Image
People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Beginning meditation is a process of unhooking ourselves from thought, being motivated to meditate. It is very exciting in the beginning because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Dahnhak is not a way to gain enlightenment, but a way to actualize enlightenment. Dahnhak is a way to train yourself so… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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