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Bliss and suffering, it seems, always go hand in hand. — Kentetsu Takamori

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions. — Matthieu Ricard

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you. — Frederick Lenz

Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind. — Frederick Lenz

How much does he lack himself who must have many things? — Sen No Rikyu

You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings. — Frederick Lenz

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. — Roger Zelazny

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken. — T. Scott McLeod

There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life. — Frederick Lenz

When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness. — Frederick Lenz

Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened — Frederick Lenz

We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories. — Steve Hagen

The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved. — Frederick Lenz

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel. — Frederick Lenz

There's lower mystical kundalini and higher mystical kundalini. There are ranges within the range. — Frederick Lenz

Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted. — Frederick Lenz

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. — Dogen

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

The life-tree of practice is single-minded application. — Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time. — Thich Nhat Hanh

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly! — Kobayashi Issa

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth. — Linji Yixuan

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom. — Sharon Salzberg

Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment. — Sharon Salzberg

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. — Sharon Salzberg

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again — Sharon Salzberg

The determination to win is the better part of winning. — Daisaku Ikeda

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires. — Zeena Schreck

On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever. — Arnaud Desjardins

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Sex is like any other transaction, except that it is not like any other transaction. — Frederick Lenz

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound. — Robert A.F. Thurman

To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today. — Frederick Lenz

We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites. — Frederick Lenz

What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump. — Frederick Lenz

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are. — Mark Epstein

There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis. — Frederick Lenz

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal. — Frederick Lenz

This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society. — Nick Love

Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control. — Frederick Lenz

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us. — Sharon Salzberg

Success and failure are terrible traps. — Frederick Lenz

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like. — Daniel J. Siegel

Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly. — Frederick Lenz

The heart chakra is the central chakra. — Frederick Lenz

After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily. — Frederick Lenz

You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here? — Frederick Lenz

The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives. — Frederick Lenz

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. — Shunryu Suzuki

Returning to where
It used to see blossoms,
My mind, changed,
Will stay on at Yoshino ...
Home now, and see anew. — Saigyo

We die, he said.
We die, I said. And kn owing this how do we live?
Knowing this, we live.
We live. — Alan Spence

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God. — Frederick Lenz

Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind. — Frederick Lenz

Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions ... worlds within worlds. — Frederick Lenz

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz

You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity. — Frederick Lenz

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work. — Frederick Lenz

You must know your enemy to beat him at his own game, but be ready as well for the ultimate sacrifice, for nobody comes out of hell without a scratch. — Robin Sacredfire

For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one. — Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen is a state of mind — Frederick Lenz

Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was. — Frederick Lenz

Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces. — Frederick Lenz

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate. — Frederick Lenz

In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious. — Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it. — Frederick Lenz

Kundalini is prana as it passes through a human being. — Frederick Lenz

What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light. — Frederick Lenz

No need for Jesus and the Lord Buddha to fight — Carol Hollinger

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world. — Nhat Hanh

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not. — Swami Vivekananda

Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form. — Frederick Lenz

I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen. — Dogen

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha. — Roger Zelazny

There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self. — Frederick Lenz

We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness. — Nhat Hanh

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air. — D.T. Suzuki

It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world. — Frederick Lenz

I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true! — C.B. Murphy

Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware. — Frederick Lenz

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything. — Jack Kornfield

You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped. — Frederick Lenz

When angry, count to Zen. — Leonard Scheff

If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Go through every closet in your house in every room. — Frederick Lenz

The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power. — Frederick Lenz

I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual? — Frederick Lenz

The Buddha is like space, with no inherent nature; appearing in the world to benefit the living, his features and refinements are like reflections. — Thomas Cleary

Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them. — Muso Soseki

The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body. — Frederick Lenz

Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger. — Frederick Lenz

Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. — Allan Lokos

When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves. — Frederick Lenz

Maybe it's something which can't be defined," Enso Roshi says. "Maybe it's a question, to be lived. — T. Scott McLeod

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here. — Steve Hagen

Once upon a time,
there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America

Stop. Look. And listen. — Dick Allen

Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world. — Frederick Lenz

Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions. — Frederick Lenz