Quotes About Reality

Abajo hay miedo, sufrimiento y muerte. Hay guerra. Y todo parece ser tan normal que podríamos olvidarlo. Así es nuestro mundo. Todo parece ser normal, a pesar de que se están cometiendo crímenes todos los días, en grande o pequeña escala, junto a nosotros, en medio de nosotros o por medio de nosotros.

No se da cuenta, de que, precisamente, para ustedes la felicidad es esa vaga ilusión inalcanzable de estar haciendo una cosa distinta de la que hacemos, de estar viviendo de un modo distinto del que vivimos, de ser otros de los que somos. Es un concepto enteramente pueril. ?No es un concepto, es un sentimiento. Uno no llega a ser feliz porque lo sabe, sino que alcanza a ser feliz cuando lo siente.

But, then, the truest perceptions of life, for me at least, have always proved to be the most elusive and the most shortlived

No cosmic purpose is served by our suffering or that of those dear to us—just as no cosmic purpose is served by our being born or by our dying; and that for the simple reason that there is no 'cosmic purpose'.

Suffering is real. To urge anything that dismisses it as 'unreal' is to mock the pain of another.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

The Omniscient One who Directly Sees Thatness" is an epithet of the Buddha. A buddha is called "omniscient" since he possesses the unhindered knowledge of all aspects of the knowable. The direct vision of thatness (Tib. de kho na nyid) is synonymous with the vision of reality as it is, with the direct realization of emptiness, of the absolute truth, of the dharmadhatu or the sugatagarbha.

That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough.

All form, therefore, is like a dream, And who will be attached to it, who thus investigates? The body, in this way, has no existence; What, therefore, is male and what is female?

When ordinary folk perceive phenomena, They look on them as real, and not illusory. This, then, is the subject of debate Where ordinary and yogis differ.

Relative and ultimate, These the two truths are declared to be. The ultimate is not within the reach of intellect, For intellect is said to be the relative.

Through a Buddha, who is but illusion, how does merit spring?" As if the Buddha were existing truly. "But," you ask, "if beings are like illusions, How, when dying, can they take rebirth?

As long as the conditions are assembled, Illusions, likewise, will persist and manifest.

What we see and what we touch Is stuff of dreams and mirages.

Speaking truth in a away that it seems a lie benefits you more than telling a lie which seems true.

I will always love the false image I had of you.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story

Perhaps the choice was neither right nor wrong. It only existed.

There's some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want those things to continue, perhaps you have to accept that the other kinds of things, unhappier, even horrific ones, will continue too. And that's harder.

He was never able, really, to see things other than the way they were, he believed, and he took some pride in that.