“If your singular aim for Liberation is strong, you will certainly attain that path. One who speaks of Liberation but has various… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Buddha does not see nibbana as a special, metaphysical place to go to but as a process of dissolution that one… — Martine Batchelor Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Rituals, ceremonies, prayers, and special outfits are inevitable, but they do not—they cannot—express the heart of what the Buddha taught. In fact,… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
“A person whom is dissatisfied with the existing constitution of the self might wish to eradicate the self. A spiritual death can… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“8. Man is not Good-natured nor Bad-natured, but Buddha-natured. We have had already occasion to observe that Zen teaches Buddha-nature, which all… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“I am not my mind, because I can observe my thoughts. So the observer is different from the observed – I am… — Osho Copy Share Image
“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity… — Osho Copy Share Image
“our nature is the mind. and the mind is our nature.this nature is the same as the mind of all buddhas. buddhas… — bodhidharma Copy Share Image
I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“While freedom gives rise to growth and enlightenment, permission allows evil to flourish in a light of day that would otherwise destroy… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The quality of thoughts and emotions that you radiate is what you'll receive back. Passion begets passion. Anger begets anger. Divine Love… — Master Del Pe Copy Share Image
“You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Most of us respond with panic when we get what we want. The moment of victory is often the moment of greatest… — Mohadesa Najumi Copy Share Image
What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it… — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
“The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear,… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“If ignorance is bliss, than knowledge is blissful enlightenment or a serious pain in the butt - depends on how I feel… — M.P. Sharma Copy Share Image
I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence. — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
“A person must always be ready to kindle the candle in their heart and fill the void in their soul by unveiling… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“No matter how much grandeur a person has, if he does not like bondage even for a single moment, then he has… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
![“8. Man is not Good-natured nor Bad-natured, but Buddha-natured. We have had already occasion to observe that Zen teaches Buddha-nature, which all sentient beings are endowed with. The term 'Buddha-nature,'[FN#165] as accepted generally by Buddhists, means a latent and undeveloped nature, which…” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e8/kaiten-nukariya-793_buddhism_8-man-is-not-good-natured-nor-bad-nature_405320.jpg)
