“Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.” AbilityBuddhismBalanceCircumstancesBoringMidstChaoticTransient Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is only hard work that brings about results, doing things for others. Forget about your problems. Take responsibility for your life and make it into something beautiful in the midst of changing circumstances.” HardProblemBeautifulForgetResultsResponsibilityHard WorkBuddhismBalanceCircumstancesMidstTaking ResponsibilitySomething BeautifulResponsibility For Your LifeDoing Things For Others Author:Frederick Lenz
“Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.” TryingMindStatesHappinessBuddhismCircumstancesSlaveState Of MindMake You HappyStop Trying Author:Frederick Lenz
“Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.” HappinessFallBuddhismCircumstancesFalling In LoveDependent Author:Frederick Lenz
“Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.” WorldPainHappinessHateLossPleasureLove YouBuddhismCircumstancesGainsHappyBeing HappyHate YouLove HateWorld LoveHappiness Is A Choice Author:Frederick Lenz
“The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.” PeopleWayInspirationalTurnsEventsPlanetsBuddhismCircumstancesQuietMajorityPainfulLive LifeHarshDesperationOur PlanetQuiet DesperationPainful Life Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.” IfsInspirationalDoeCausesLossBuddhismCircumstancesSlaveBounds Author:Frederick Lenz
“Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.” AttentionFieldsBuddhismCircumstancesFlowFollowingDharma Author:Frederick Lenz
“The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.” GivingLightDesireBuddhismCircumstancesPlanesRise AboveAversion Author:Frederick Lenz
“Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to respond to beauty, and to respond to difficult circumstances with patience, with a sense of calm, with clarity.” DifficultPracticeBuddhismCircumstancesCalmClarityBuddhistEtiquetteDifficult Circumstances Author:Frederick Lenz
“Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power.” PeopleSuccessCareersBuddhismCircumstancesDetermineFactorsVisibleDnaRise AboveSociological Author:Frederick Lenz
“Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.” PeopleDifferentBeliefTeachingTaughtBuddhismCircumstancesAbsolutesCreatorDifferent PeoplesNegation Author:Dalai Lama