Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search… — Steven Harrison Copy Share Image
“When monks deny the existence of the I, they are not denying the existence of humanity or of man in general; but… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers -… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Sahaja samadhi means that you have just gone back and forth so many times that there is no back and forth. All… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The contemporary Enlightenment world prides itself on its commitment to equality and justice, its open-mindedness, its making opportunity available to all, and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“Become the person of no rank. Become the noble soul, and live in this awakened way, not imitating anyone. Whatever the circumstances… — Maurine Stuart Copy Share Image
“Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had… — Andrew Louth Copy Share Image
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the… — Buddhadasa Bhikkhu Copy Share Image
“More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
The way of presentation is different according to each religion. In theistic religions like Buddhism, Buddhist values are incorporated. In nontheistic religions,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Methods can become an obstacle to abiding in non-dual awareness if the practitioner believes that one must use the practice to renounce… — Tenzin Wangyal Copy Share Image
Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
“I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The process of awakening or enlightenment is nothing but to empty yourself from inside, and make you encounter with the real being,… — Roshan Sharma Copy Share Image
A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this… — Dōgen Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Dharma, the word at the heart of the epic, is in fact untranslatable. Duty, goodness, justice, law and custom all have something… — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don't be thinking that this lama over there is giving better teachings or that this lama over here is giving more secret… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Light by its very nature is endless. Therefore you can never say you've had the ultimate experience in light - it goes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“While you are conscious of being a Buddha, you are not truly a Buddha, because you are ensnared by the idea. You… — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In order to survive women have developed their second attention, which men have not evolved. They use the second attention, and have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“Science has proven that subatomic particles can exist in two places at once. Since we are all made up of these particles,… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image