Quotes About Enlightenment

Talks With Ramana alone,

The wise one lives without the feeling of I-ness or mine-ness. What is this I, or what is "mine"? Be devoid of the feeling of mine-ness and I-ness, knowing for certain that Nothing is—in Me, individual selves rise and disappear.

The Buddha said anger has a "poisoned root and honeyed tip.

According to Buddhist philosophy, both the problems we call therapeutic and the problems we call spiritual are a product of not seeing things clearly. What's more, in both cases this failure to see things clearly is in part a product of being misled by feelings. And the first step toward seeing through these feelings is seeing them in the first place—becoming aware of how pervasively and subtly feelings influence our thought and behavior.

Robert Wright

The old Rolling Stones lyric "I can't get no satisfaction" is, according to Buddhism, the human condition.

Quizá la mejor manera de decirlo sea que la iluminación y la liberación se refuerzan mutuamente: cuantas más cosas que nos liberan del sufrimiento hacemos, más clara es nuestra visión, y cuanto más clara sea nuestra visión, más fácil nos resultará hacer las cosas que nos conducen a la liberación del sufrimiento, lo cual, a su vez, nos permitirá tener aún más claridad de visión, y así sucesivamente.

The Buddha believed that the less you judge things—including the contents of your mind—the more clearly you'll see them, and the less deluded you'll be.

I would be approaching the truth.

And don't feel like you're committing a felony-level violation of Buddhist dogma just because you think of yourself as being a self.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

lo cierto es que en cierto modo quiero que me sigan sacando de quicio, pues no me gustaría llegar tan lejos en la búsqueda del nirvana como para perder este espíritu de lucha. Si la iluminación total significa dejar de hacer juicios de valor de cualquier tipo y dejar de esforzarse por cambiar las cosas, entonces no contéis conmigo2.

Y tal vez eso es lo que es el «yo», lo que «tú» eres, una vez que se abandona la idea de yo: un tipo de forma de conciencia purificada.

three marks of existence

According to the teaching of the Buddha, the idea of self is an imaginary, false belief which has no corresponding reality, and it produces harmful thoughts of 'me' and 'mine,' selfish desire, craving, attachment, hatred, ill-will, conceit, pride, egoism, and other defilements, impurities, and problems. It is the source of all the troubles in the world from personal conflicts to wars between nations. In short, to this false view can be traced all the evil in the world.

According to the teaching of the Buddha, the idea of self is an imaginary, false belief which has no corresponding reality, and it produces harmful thoughts of 'me' and 'mine,' selfish desire, craving, attachment, hatred, ill-will, conceit, pride, egoism, and other defilements, impurities, and problems.

What's fundamental to the Buddha's teachings is the general dynamic of being powerfully drawn to sensory pleasure that winds up being fleeting at best.

So, yes, we need to reject the core evolutionary value of the specialness of self. Indeed, there's probably never been a time in human history when this rejection was more vital.

Still, suppose—just as a thought experiment—that your goal wasn't living as long as possible but rather attaining the

Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.

Reading is never a waste of time.

How much better off the poor man would be if he devoted himself to reading.

It was right, what they said: Enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.

In a moment all became clear to me. How stupid could I have been?