Buddhism Quotes
1466 Buddhism quotes by 146 unique authors
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Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.
— Frederick Lenz
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Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.
— Frederick Lenz
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These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress…
— Frederick Lenz
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All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my…
— Frederick Lenz
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Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life.
— Frederick Lenz
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When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that…
— Frederick Lenz
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Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate…
— Frederick Lenz
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You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way…
— Frederick Lenz
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The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world -…
— Frederick Lenz
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You are not a body. You are not a mind. You are infinite light, infinite intelligence, the radiance of all beings, the dharmakaya - the…
— Frederick Lenz
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You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you…
— Frederick Lenz
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The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or…
— Frederick Lenz
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There is mental conditioning in your mind put in there during this life by your parents, teachers, the society. You've been told what is and…
— Frederick Lenz
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All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.
— Frederick Lenz
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All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.
— Frederick Lenz
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In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from simply leading a…
— Frederick Lenz
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Most individuals on earth are not drawn to the higher light at this time. That doesn't make you superior to anyone else. If you are…
— Frederick Lenz
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We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power…
— Frederick Lenz
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Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves…
— Frederick Lenz
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As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.
— Frederick Lenz
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There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.
— Frederick Lenz
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Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person…
— Frederick Lenz
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Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can…
— Frederick Lenz
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On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a…
— Frederick Lenz
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