Buddhism Quotes - Page 18

• If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience. You won't even notice what your body is doing, particularly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Mind, Body

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• If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Lingerie, States

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• Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Desire, Innocence

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• Sex is a highly personal matter, yet it seems to get more impersonal all the time. How do I feel about sex? I suppose it matters with whom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Matter, Feels

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• The most important thing is sensitivity. Many people have sex and don't feel anything, and that seems kind of sad to me. The answer is not necessarily the avoidance of sex, but learning to be sensitive and to love and to care.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, People, Important

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• Sex is like any other transaction, except that it is not like any other transaction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Transactions

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• In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Feelings, Sensual, World

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• The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Discovery, Self

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Issues, Mind, Body

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• Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They're just different choices, different videos that you've selected to view tonight.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Views, Choices

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• You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Thinking, Enlightenment

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• The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Path, Senses

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• Obviously there is a lot more ecstasy in the spirit than in the flesh but the flesh has its moments!

  Frederick Lenz

  Flesh, Spirit, Moments

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• Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Son, Men

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.204, Image

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• Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

  Nick Flynn

  Meditation, Way

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• All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center.

  Richard Wilhelm

  Men, Thinking, Psychics

  Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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• A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.

  Alexander Gardner

  Religious, Book, Archery

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• Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless

  Edward Conze

  Brainless, Suitable

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• All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark

  Merlin Mann

  Self, Helping, Mark

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• Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

  John Burdett

  Buddhist, Talking, People

  "Thai Air. John Burdett on 'Bangkok Haunts'". "Austin Chronicle" Interview, www.austinchronicle.com. June 15, 2007.

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• According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

  Dalai Lama

  Destiny, Hands, Enlightenment

  Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

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• What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Giving, Answers

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Humorous, Serious

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Illumination, Here And Now

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• What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Faces, Term

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