“There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be there is balance, happiness. That is a personal decision.” PainHappinessDecisionPleasureBuddhismBalancePersonal Decisions Author:Frederick Lenz
“There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.” PeopleGivingHumansHas BeensDifferentOrderNamesHuman BeingsPleasureAwarenessBuddhismBandPerception Author:Frederick Lenz
“Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.” FeelsPainHappinessLife IsLossPleasureLike YouBuddhismUniqueGainsBreaths Author:Frederick Lenz
“Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.” IfsHappinessPleasureDealsBuddhismEnjoyableTransientSatiation 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
“Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?” IfsTogetherSexLossPleasureCreationBuddhismOppositesUnionsOneselfSexualityTemporaryComing TogetherWhat Is LifeYangYin And Yang Author:Frederick Lenz
“Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.” InspirationalPainPleasureConditionsCreationBuddhismSorrowSlaveRise AboveSuccess And FailurePain And Pleasure Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.” WorldPainSufferingGrowthSpacePleasureConditionsThis WorldBuddhismBirthDecaySpinningPain And Pleasure Author:Frederick Lenz
“We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.” IfsSufferingUniversePleasureBuddhismAdd Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” IfsWaySelfBigsStrongPleasureMovementBuddhismNewsEnlightenmentDiscoverySelf DiscoveryVery StrongUnlikelyBig News Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” MenWorldChildrenSaidProblemLightWould BeBornPleasureExistenceDarknessFireWifeSonBuddhismEthicsGuidesCodeDisgustingWearyDesertedGuide MeLight Of The World Book:Life of Christ Source: Life of Christ