Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment isn't the end but the beginning, the start of a journey that a small group of people begun while the rest… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The spirit of Buddhism is, more than anything, about valuing harmony and unity, in which others are respected and embraced rather than… — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“In the absence of heart, even truth becomes mindless - and the mindless never know they're mindless, they feel like it's an… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that… — Janet Bettag Copy Share Image
During the Enlightenment, there were brilliant thinkers who realized that, if you assume most people are naturally selfish and you construct the… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“You can appreciate your life, even if it is an imperfect situation. Perhaps your apartment is run down and your furniture is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In Dzogchen one learns to become responsible for oneself without following rules. A person who follows rules is like a blind person… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges.… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“You can think of your body in two ways: 1. As mechanical, like an automobile worth only so many miles or 2.… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry,… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is a religion of the heart. Only this. One who practices to develop the heart is one who practices Buddhism [...]… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Science’ (vignan) is always principled and it brings an end to all the misery. ‘Science’ is the only solution for it, but… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Kirshna says its better to be a winner than a loser. It runs counter to what a lot of people whould think,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If you believe that you are NOT omnipresent, omniscient and ultimately omnipotent – you are delusional. If you believe that you are… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
“The enlightenment you receive through religious training and the enlightenment you receive from drugs are, in the end, one and the same.” — Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Copy Share Image
We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I momentarily but genuinely believed that Barack Obama was the answer not only to our nation's depressing politics but to the question… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“The bottom line remains the same: you’re either awake or you’re not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
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