Assuming Quote by Frederick Lenz Download Open image “From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.” — Frederick Lenz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assuming Buddhism Buddhist Etiquette Knows Perspective
Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into… — Frank Crane Copy Share Image
If you listen closely to your intuition you will always know what is best for you, because what is best for you is what… — Dirgha Copy Share Image
“Buddhist teachings are meant to awaken our true self, not merely to add to our storehouse of knowledge. From” — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem. — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image