Buddhism Quotes - Page 27

• The reason you see yourself as a creep is because you have an appreciation of what perfection is, whereas no one else conceives of themselves in that way, since they don't even strive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Appreciation, Perfection, Way

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• What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Mind, Being There

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• When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?

  Frederick Lenz

  Emptiness, Realizing

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• Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Athlete, Enlightenment

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• There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Winning, Competition

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• Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attachment, Path Of Love, Shows

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• When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.

  Frederick Lenz

  Want, Littles, Sake

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• What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Focus, Enlightenment, Noble

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• As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.

  Dave Davies

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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• The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

  Annie Besant

  Buddhist, Mistake, Ideas

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• To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.

  Frederick Lenz

  Looks, Excuse, Right Place

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• The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sensual, World, Moments

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• Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Littles, Pathways

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Fighting, Practice

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• Tonight is not the end of the world. This is our hot tip of the evening.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hot, Tonight, World

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• All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark

  Merlin Mann

  Self, Helping, Mark

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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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• Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless

  Edward Conze

  Brainless, Suitable

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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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• 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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• Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational concepts simultaneously in the mind. It is necessary to grid, to literally unlock realities and dimensions with the power of your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Numbers

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