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Tag Name "Buddhism" (1673)

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Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.
Frederick Lenz
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If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
Albert Einstein
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Buddhism suggests that you have that choice you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have an absolute choice about what you experience in your mind.
Frederick Lenz
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
Pema Chodron
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
Jack Kornfield
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The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive a certain level of the dream of life. But you can reorder those. That's magic, you see.
Frederick Lenz
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Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.
Frederick Lenz
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We feel crowded by other people we feel crowded by social rules we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.
Frederick Lenz
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Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.
Frederick Lenz
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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
Matthieu Ricard
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Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.
Frederick Lenz
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Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception
Frederick Lenz
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Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness it's almost pitiful.
Frederick Lenz
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Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you.
Frederick Lenz
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Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you'll see eternity.
Frederick Lenz
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For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Gautama Buddha
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What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.
Frederick Lenz
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Their whole life will begin to shift, from their first physical contact with you.
Frederick Lenz
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Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.
Frederick Lenz
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Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.
Quentin S. Crisp
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There are special places on our planet, places of power, healing and renewal, places where the mind-body connection is enhanced and that enable us to get back in touch with our deepest innermost feelings.
Frederick Lenz
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Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught.
Tiger Woods
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