Best desire & buddhism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.”

Want Trying Wisdom Desire Answers Buddhism Eternity What You Want Frustration Conform

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This world is not a middle point in evolution. It's one step down from the middle point in evolution. This is the world of desire and fulfillment, frustration, but at least once in a while you can go to Burger King.”

World Desire Humanity Steps Middle This World Buddhism Evolution Kings Fulfillment Frustration Burgers Burger King

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.”

People Humans Desire Humanity Lines Human Beings Buddhism Punishment Assumption Mentality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.”

Desire Humanity Conditions Buddhism Prison Unhappy Frustration Humankind Illusory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions”

Happiness Desire Emotion Crazy Buddhism Right Now Silly Where You Are Be You Just Being Just Being You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.”

World Mind Stills Self Happiness Desire Loses Buddhism Involved Stillness Centering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.”

People Thinking World Happiness Desire Causes Buddhism Type Fulfillment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?”

Ifs Doe Happiness Desire Buddhism Ten Factors Fulfillment Apples Why Not Pie Make You Happy Apple Pie Satiation

Author: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.”

Should Firsts Desire Path Our Lives Buddhism Should Have Sexuality Path Of Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.”

Inspirational Desire Taken Buddhism Extremes Fulfillment Cynical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.”

People Inspirational Feels Believe Persons Desire Buddhism Sensitive Frustration Sensitive Person Anger And Frustration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.”

People World Inspirational Pain Desire Buddhism Expectations Filled Ecstasy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.”

Giving Use Desire Meditation Buddhism Ego Going Away Innate Impetus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.”

Mind Humans Desire Purpose Human Beings Meditation Buddhism Filled Average Definitions Senses Controlled Vagueness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.”

Ifs Mind Desire Purpose Buddhism Mindfulness Picks Purpose Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You will be swayed by your desires, conditioning, and those around you who have ideas about what you should do, what is proper, what is improper.”

Should Ideas Desire Answers Struggle Buddhism Dharma Conditioning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.”

Lying Desire Choices Buddhism Fool Liberation Fulfillment Dharma Rationalize

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.”

Ifs Mind Desire Silence Buddhism Stillness Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.”

Ifs Spiritual Desire Waiting Forever Study Acceptance Buddhism Gods Will Rising Frustration Rise Above Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.”

Running Desire Accepting Impossible Conditions Buddhism Aspect Purity Running Away Indigenous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.”

Action Desire Choices Difficult Buddhism Pure Liberation Purity Enslavement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.”

Real Desire Choices Practice Ignorance Expression Buddhism Infinite Fruit Available Buddhist Recognition Vulnerability Affliction Scope Buddha Nature Infinite Potential Wrong Or Right

Book:The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

“As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.”

Light Pain Desire Practice Meditation Progress Buddhism Periods Sorrow Overcoming Bounds Limitation Meditation Practice

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.”

Giving Light Desire Buddhism Circumstances Planes Rise Above Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others.”

Persons Stills Desire Teacher Buddhism Destructive Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.”

World Two Desire Suffering Buddhism Enlightenment Perfection Endless Luminous Two Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.”

Light Form Desire Suffering Buddhism Pure Unhappiness Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.”

Ifs Way Feels Facts Feelings Problem Desire Learning Buddhism Promise Normal Okay Experience Fulfillment Realistic Right Way No Problem Outlook

Book:Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

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

Self Desire Buddhism Connected Innocent Innocence Purity

Author:Frederick Lenz

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