The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life. — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Without hope, Chöd practitioners are freed from the limits of hope and fear; having cut the ropes of grasping, definitely enlightened, where… — Machik Labdrön Copy Share Image
“May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation… — Tulku Urgyen Copy Share Image
“You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“To be enlightened is always to be enlightened about something. I am enlightened about the fact that I am drinking a glass… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“Change is the very nature of Nature. if there's one thing that doesn't change, it is the fact that everything changes. In… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Or the Japanese may go in an entirely different direction—an interesting possibility, given that the West itself has now begun to question… — Patrick Smith Copy Share Image
“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves.… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Enlightened teachers get all sorts of assignments. Sometimes we end up in the higher astral; sometimes we end up in the realm… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human… — Albert Low Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“If you attain unsurpassable, complete enlightenment, all sentient beings also attain it. The reason is that all sentient beings are aspects of… — Dōgen Copy Share Image
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There's many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don't have to be on the razor's edge like the yellow line dotted… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
There is something beyond the natural chaos that is woman or the chaos with implied order that is man, and that's the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment does not put an end to awareness. It puts an end to limited awareness. It doesn't necessarily put an end to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Today’s China is an artifact of an extended and contentious history while the relatively young American Republic is a daring project informed… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
There are some careers that will develop your mind more than others. In the study of enlightenment, it is most important to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
“Life gives us many gifts that we could hardly imagine. When we let go of preconceptions and witness life without the turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
This is a time of great confusion, of great darkness; other networks are slipping in through other dimensional planes. Soon the network… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
