I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Bondage of worldly life cannot tie us down; such is the knowledge of Vitrag (Enlightened One). Our ‘Self’ is such that it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Those who regard worldly affairs as a hindrance to buddha dharma think only that there is no buddha dharma in the secular… — Zen Master Dogen Copy Share Image
You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The Surangama Sutra chooses, as the best meditation method for the present historic cycle, the one used by Avalokitesvara. It disengages bodily… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Perhaps terror and peace became the same thing when life's mysteries were unveiled. In the Bhagavad Gita, when Krishna reveals his divine… — Padma Viswanathan Copy Share Image
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it… — Eckhart Tolle 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
“The wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the illusion under which our minds work,… — Sharon Ellis Copy Share Image
Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we… — David Brazier Copy Share Image
It is at best insufficient and at worst inaccurate to settle on a definition of the Enlightenment, for the obvious reason that… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Nothing is required for this enlightenment except freedom; and the freedom in question is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have,… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mantras have an important place in meditation. But the idea has become somewhat prevalent in the West, and in the East to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
“The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss— unadulterated and… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound… — Kazuya Minekura Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
