Teachers of Enlightenment Quotes

“they live with us in the present, influencing the way we act, speak, think, and feel. They are a constant source of beneficence in the present. The historical figures have clearly left their traces on world culture.”
― Kulananda with Vajratara, Teachers of Enlightenment: The Refuge Tree of the Triratna Buddhist Order

“Every figure on the Tree, each in their own way, has changed the world for the better.”
― Kulananda with Vajratara, Teachers of Enlightenment: The Refuge Tree of the Triratna Buddhist Order

“Though Teachers of Enlightenment contains much useful information about the figures on the Refuge Tree of the Western Buddhist Order, about the Buddhist scriptures, and about the historical development of Buddhism, it is above all a call to spiritual practice.”
― Kulananda with Vajratara, Teachers of Enlightenment: The Refuge Tree of the Triratna Buddhist Order

“All five lotuses were shown as springing from a common stem, in this way forming between them what was known as the Refuge Tree.”
― Kulananda with Vajratara, Teachers of Enlightenment: The Refuge Tree of the Triratna Buddhist Order

“The practice came as a revelation to me. It involved not just the mind, but also the body and one’s speech. As such, it was a total practice. It exemplified, in highly concrete fashion, the fact that one went for Refuge not just mentally, but with one’s whole being,”
― Kulananda with Vajratara, Teachers of Enlightenment: The Refuge Tree of the Triratna Buddhist Order

“the degree to which one was a Buddhist was determined not by one’s ecclesiastical status – not by whether one was monk or layman, nun or laywoman – but simply and solely by the degree to which one went for Refuge to the Three Jewels.”
― Kulananda with Vajratara, Teachers of Enlightenment: The Refuge Tree of the Triratna Buddhist Order