To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment,… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
“The enlightened are servants of the rich and poor, helpers of the weak and powerful, friends of the lowly and eminent. They… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“...the Chöd teachings attributed to Machik Labdrön both rely and innovate on Buddhist representations of mental functionings of a human being, including… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“express their Buddha-nature to a small extent mostly within their own doors, while so-called good persons, or 'great persons' as the Oriental… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“the consciousnesses who have been directly associated with ideas of enlightenment or spiritual paths will often reach a point of the admission… — Master Teacher Copy Share Image
“You know, when you look into the Guru's eyes you're just seeing yourself. If you see the Guru, then you're missing the… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is a true Buddha in family life; there is a real Tao in everyday activities. If people can be sincere and… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror… — Edward Conze Copy Share Image
Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Your intent is important. You will pull a very deep power when you are working not just for yourself, but you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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