“Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.” PhilosophyHumanityHouseReligiousForgetLeaderMovementBuddhismDramaCaughtPhilosopherCardsCaught UpReligious LeadersHouse Of Cards Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that, meditation has become a quantifiable religious experience, which means it's not any fun!” PeopleInspirationalMeanFeelingsFunReligiousMeditationBuddhismGreat TimesReligious Experience Author:Frederick Lenz
“A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.” IfsWantInspirationalRealFunSoundReligiousOur LivesBuddhismNonsenseArbitrary Author:Frederick Lenz
“A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between your career and your religious practice.” MindSuccessReligiousCareersBreakPracticeBuddhismPaidBuddhistReligious Practices Author:Frederick Lenz
“My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.” PeoplePhilosophyReligiousTeachingBuddhismPrejudiceComplexesTargetIntoleranceRamaReligious PhilosophyReligious Intolerance Author:Frederick Lenz
“Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult.” PeopleHardStatesAmericaFeltReligiousLinesUnitedUnited StatesGroupsAwarenessMovementBuddhismCultRamaProtestantismLaxReligious Cults Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.” PhilosophyFacesReligiousTeachOne ThingBuddhismDisciplineTestsCodeRidiculeRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.” WaySometimesSpiritualUnderstandingReligiousAnswersPracticeBuddhismBalancePhilosophicalObviousObsessionBuddhistEtiquetteAssertionOccultAccompanyReligious PracticesSpiritual Balance Author:Frederick Lenz
“The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.” PeopleHas BeensWarHandsPoliticalReligiousChristianityPracticeGoneEconomicEventsBuddhismHolyConcernedEternityViolentTheologyOppressionObsessedHinduismConsistentlyImperialismJudaismHumaneHand In HandHoly WarProselytizingHinduism And Buddhism Author:Aldous Huxley
“The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.” MindReligiousBuddhismBasesPhilosophicalBuddhistCosmologyAssimilationRevisionInterpretingMind Changing Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” BookSelfHelpingCultureReligiousMeditationSelf HelpStudentsBuddhismOffersTraditionWesternInsightAdvertisingCuriousJapanScholarStereotypeEnjoyableRefreshingReligious TraditionsJapanese CultureArcherySelf Help BooksHelp Book Author:Alexander Gardner
“At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.” BelieveTodayCertainJesusSexReligiousMoralIssuesFourPositionBuddhismFolksNobleAbortionDivinityBedroomHomosexuality Author:Stephen Prothero