“To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The Sutra That Unravels the Intention states: Here, the Buddha teaches the five characteristics of the ultimate. The five characteristics of the… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
A practice that is suitable for one person is not necessarily suitable for someone else, and a practice that is appropriate for… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Examples of fractals are everywhere in nature. They can be found in the patterns of trees, branches, and ferns, in which each… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Negativity is a debilitating disease. It is a slow and painful way to experience life. It attacks the immune system, creates anxiety,… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“But these trees don’t grow impatiently. They move with a grace, with patience, with trust. There is no hurry anywhere else except… — Osho Copy Share Image
“A true experience of prajna corresponds to “enlightenment” or liberation—not change, but transformation—a profound vision of his identity with universal life, past,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Your body and my body are both totally made up of and dependent upon the elements of the earth—the water, the air,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, for one great cause alone appear in the world. The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, appear in the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Before his death the Buddha asked his disciples to follow the Dharma, not any teacher or tradition. He put no one over… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Life is trying to teach us one thing: to see the Eck, Holy Spirit, in the eyes of all we meet. This… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
"Moksha" is really a satire of myself. I've always been interested in Eastern spirituality. I'm particularly interested in enlightenment and the spiritual… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“One of my friends who leads meditation retreats honors the Asian habit, as I do, of bowing to the image of the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Therefore the Buddha for a temporary purpose made these (uninitiated) observe the Five Precepts similar to the Five Virtues[FN#327] of the outside… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“From The Twelve Enlightenments Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“... But these skeptics are only selectively skeptical. They think themselves enlightened for resisting all this new proof and remaining steadfast in… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“The Zen Monk Kyō Has Changed His Name to Mujū Dōryū. I Wrote This Verse to Celebrate The Great Prospects That Lie… — Baisao Copy Share Image
“We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China) what enlightenment was,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The blessed Buddhas introduce the disciples into the lack of nature in a gradual way. Those who have practiced merit will easily… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The differences between religions are only differences involving the pathways that lead toward the practice of directly experiencing higher levels of perception… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“Suffering is one of the greatest spiritual teachers of humanity. Even though none of us really ever welcomes it...having had enough of… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
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