A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is… — Uzoma Nnadi Copy Share Image
Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment, in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart. By simply relaxing… — Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Copy Share Image
“I thought I lived in a hostile world where everything feeds on everything, but now I know that I’m an immortal being… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Therefore, to get Enlightened we have to believe that all beings are Buddha-natured—that is, absolutely good-natured in the sense that transcends the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The scriptures say that ‘the Soul is like this or like that or it is not like that’, and so do the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“You are not a small and unimportant creature confined to the form of this physical body, contrary to popular belief. At the… — Joseph P. Kauffman 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
“Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is nothing more than moments of self-awareness. Don’t let cultural spiritual hierarchy intimidate you into the mindset of unworthiness. You are… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
The fountain of information lies at your fingertips and is accessible anywhere at anytime and schools need to emphasize this. We are… — Christopher Myers Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Buddhism believes that there is an inseparable link between the living things. It also emphasizes on understanding the continuous flow of nature.” — HTeBooks Copy Share Image
Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha’s priority was to get down to the root of the problem. Buddhism is not culturally bound. Its benefits are not limited… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Copy Share Image
“Having set ourselves free from the misconception of Self, next we must awaken our innermost wisdom, pure and divine, called the Mind… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The calligraphy reads, “Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.” Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“[The Buddha] is not dividing himself into worthy and unworthy pieces; he is one being, indivisible, immune from the tendency to double… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to… — Taitetsu Unno Copy Share Image
I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I now understand why my guru told me not to read other commentaries onthe Bhagavad Gita. He didn't want my mind influenced… — Paramhansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Everyone should not be ordained, but for those who really feel that the only thing that matters in this world is the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe;… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“But I wish to be enlightened.' 'Let me caution you against it.' 'Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?' 'Yes, indeed.'… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“When the charging (of karma) stops, the binding of new 'sansar' (worldly life) ends. The state that 'I am the doer' never… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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