Quotes About Enlightenment

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.

Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.

Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

The first five—generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, and concentration—are related to the sublime accumulation of merit, while the sixth paramita corresponds to the great accumulation of wisdom.150 Aside from these two accumulations of wisdom and method united, there is no other means of attaining buddhahood.

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

some well-known

The moment learning occurs, mankind progresses

knowledge breaks the world into pieces, while wisdom makes it whole...We are sorely deficient in wisdom, lacking a view of how all these pieces of knowledge connect to make the world a better place.

But knowledge breaks the world into pieces, while wisdom makes it whole.

Give me the good for which I do not know to ask,