Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha Gautama Buddha realized, balance is the key to enlightenment.” — Lee Vickers Copy Share Image
The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen. — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange how humans will resort to the most inhumane of actions as the first plausible solution? Why are we… — Dimitri Zaik Copy Share Image
No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No label can define the immensity of your True nature. You are the awareness that precedes every label, the awareness that is… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“By doing this, when his or her wisdom of superior seeing directly realizes the emptiness of all phenomena, the Bodhisattva advances from… — Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“One of the beautiful things about Buddhism is that it does not worship Buddha as a god or deity, but instead celebrates… — Lodro Rinzler Copy Share Image
As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“because Buddhism, having been adopted by savage tribes as well as civilized nations, by quiet, enervated people as well as by warlike,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception of reality was adopted by… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Allowing attachments to people/things create a compulsive addiction in us to be controlling. This “control” (fueled by fear of loss) fools us… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
