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Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia. — Zeena Schreck

The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening - often rude awakening. — Jay Michaelson

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight. — Sharon Salzberg

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else. — Frederick Lenz

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. — Gautama Buddha

My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism. — Vinessa Shaw

Today's satori:
Such a change of mind would
Not exist without
My lifelong habit of having
My mind immersed in blossoms. — Saigyo

If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness. — Frederick Lenz

How could sexuality be anything but God? It's the creation of life. Life is experiencing itself in endless forms. — Frederick Lenz

With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure. — Wu Cheng'en

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

Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it's difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success. — Frederick Lenz

Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you . — Frederick Lenz

There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it. — Frederick Lenz

Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit. — Frederick Lenz

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

You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity. — Frederick Lenz

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on
not on our own terms, but on the world's. — Steve Hagen

We find what's in our own heads. — T. Scott McLeod

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist. — Laurie Anderson

Buddhism's cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm. — Gil Fronsdal

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

Render unto meditation the things that are meditation's, and unto medication the things that are medication's. — Barry Graham

It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends. — Frederick Lenz

Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does. — Frederick Lenz

Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path. — Frederick Lenz

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection. — Richard Gere

There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful. — Frederick Lenz

Learn to meditate. It's fun. It will give you a strong, wonderful mind. — Frederick Lenz

There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful. — Frederick Lenz

At the last stages of the journey, there's no journey at all. — Jay Michaelson

Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are. — Sukhraj S. Dhillon

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss. — Robert Thurman

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning. — Kentetsu Takamori

At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised." — Frederick Lenz

There's no path to liberation that doesn't pass through the shadow. — Jay Michaelson

Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring. — Frederick Lenz

The more lives you have, the harder it is to change, yet the stronger you are. It's a kind of funny dichotomy. — Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening. — Mark Epstein

I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain. — Frederick Lenz

We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together. — Frederick Lenz

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism. — Christopher Moore

There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time. — Frederick Lenz

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do. — Frederick Lenz

Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes to codify. — Frederick Lenz

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self. — Frederick Lenz

It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life. — Frederick Lenz

Christianity and Buddhism are a lot alike, especially Buddhism. — C.S. Lewis

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism. — Joan Halifax

Without giving up hope - that there's somewhere better to be, that there's someone better to be - we will never relax with where we are or who we are. — Pema Chodron

Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else? — Kentetsu Takamori

When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life. — Frederick Lenz

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual. — Frederick Lenz

I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception. — Frederick Lenz

The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods. — Frederick Lenz

This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment. — Frederick Lenz

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. — Dalai Lama XIV

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind — Steve Hagen

What you have to do is just walk into the light. Then you find that it doesn't burn, and it's not particular frightening. — Frederick Lenz

The issue is not what you're doing with your body; it's what you're doing with your mind. — Frederick Lenz

The name one gives is inessential.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet. — Walpola Rahula

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism. — Frederick Lenz

A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action. — Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding. — Frederick Lenz

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity. — C.S. Lewis

If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method. — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz

The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. — Frederick Lenz

Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth. — Frederick Lenz

The thinking brain influences the body's responses and it makes a neat little loop. — Brad Warner

The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before. — Frederick Lenz

The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned. — 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

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

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

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

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

The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision. — Frederick Lenz

When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with. — Frederick Lenz

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don't have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead. — Ajahn Chah

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

I have a great deal of spiritual dignity. It's on loan from eternity, and you do too, and we have to use it in our relationship with each other. — Frederick Lenz

While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed. — Frederick Lenz

It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city. — Frederick Lenz

Instead of becoming the world's expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go. — Ajahn Sumedho

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered. — Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with. — Pankaj Mishra

Taking in another's criticism, even when it's offered out of love, requires courage. — Sharon Salzberg

It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. — Daisaku Ikeda

Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice. — Frederick Lenz

In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be. — Frederick Lenz

When every aspect of your life is impeccable, then you will find that there's no limit to your journeys into the infinite. — Frederick Lenz

An open beginner's mind is a powerful tool for developing patience. — Allan Lokos

One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization. — Frederick Lenz

The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you. — Frederick Lenz

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy. — Frederick Lenz

It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want! — Frederick Lenz