Top 28 Enlightened Buddhist Quotes
#1. Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound.
Frederick Lenz
#2. If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.
Frederick Lenz
#3. People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.
Frederick Lenz
#4. Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
Ajahn Chah
#5. thanks to mommy and match-box cars, thanks for dad and to the stars.
Dixie Chicks
#6. Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person ... they re-codify the ways, the practices, they make changes that are just intelligent changes that adapt to a new century, a new culture.
Frederick Lenz
#8. What sets Tibetan Buddhism apart from other Buddhist traditions - such as the Zen Buddhism of Japan or the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka - is that while Tibetans aim to become enlightened, they don't want to enter Nirvana.
Scott Carney
#9. Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.
Frederick Lenz
#11. Throughout his career, Jobs liked to see himself as an enlightened rebel pitted against evil empires, a Jedi warrior or Buddhist samurai fighting the forces of darkness. IBM was his perfect foil. He cleverly cast the upcoming battle not as a mere business competition,
Walter Isaacson
#12. There's a Buddhist story about the guy who wants to be enlightened, and then he gets a cow and a wife and a child, and all these things get in the way of his enlightenment. So, yeah, I have no chance of being enlightened.
Larkin Grimm
#13. If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.
Frederick Lenz
#14. Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Christopher Lasch
#15. An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.
Frederick Lenz
#16. It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to others. The person who does this is a very fortunate person and should rejoice very often.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#17. I'm tired of being the nail...I wanna be the hammer for once!
Ryan O'Connor
#18. There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.
Frederick Lenz
#19. If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you have to do is meditate on your Buddhist master and the light will come into your mind.
Frederick Lenz
#20. I came to California in 1970 and so many people were asking if I was a Buddhist or knew Zen theory, asking if I was enlightened already or not. So I said, "Yes, I am enlightened," and then I studied quickly to catch up.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#21. Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
John Wesley
#22. How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.
Frederick Lenz
#23. Their lives had stopped, frozen, as if in a picture, and the days were nothing more than empty squares on a calendar.
Tom Franklin
#24. Whenever you see the fear and sadness,
be there the source of love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#25. As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.
Clive Thompson
#28. It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.
Frederick Lenz
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