Quotes About Enlightenment

It will be great to live in a world where we don't discuss sex anymore because we have managed to go beyond it. And then we can focus on more important things.

Rodrygo has an impressive lucidity.

I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things better for other people, and in the end, money will come as a result.

Absolutely no one should be arguing for a system aimed at increasing ignorance.

The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

The major problem with the notion of transformation is that it forever hangs on to some form of self and never lets it go. It perpetuates the notion that self gets better and better, more and more divine, when in truth, the divine increases in proportion as the self decreases or falls away. The notion of a divinized self only increases or inflates the self; for those who buy into this notion, the journey may well end in total disillusionment. Offhand

Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.

Nicolas Wells rejoignit les autres. De son onde propre, il renrichit la vibration collective : OM. Un instant, il se sentit devenir un nuage immatériel et léger qui s'élevait et traversait les matières. C'était mille fois mieux qu'être dieu parmi les fourmis. Libre ! Il était libre.

Zazen is the elimination of distance between subject and object.

We often think that to be spiritual or enlightened we need to have some special experiences, just as we think that in order to make a great meal or become a master chef we need special ingredients and a fancy kitchen. But all we have to do to make a meal is put all the pots and pans and ingredients in their proper places. And all we have to do to be in touch with our spirituality is to let the mind settle itself, like a cloudy glass of city tap water.

Three Treasures: the Buddha, which refers to the world of oneness; the Dharma, which is the world of form; and the Sangha, or the relationship that says the two are really the same thing. We begin such study the simple way, by seeing the world of oneness, of emptiness.

And the light shineth in the darkness.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

What is important to you is simply this for the moment: that being surrounded by the astral and mental worlds, contacts from these are continually touching you, continually causing changes in your consciousness. If your astral body were thoroughly organised like your physical, the impressions made would be clear and sharp like the physical.

There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey, and abandoned grief, who has freed him self on all sides, and thrown off all fetters.

Karma does not bind one who has renounced work.

Seeing Your great effulgent and various-colored form touching the sky; Your mouth wide open and large shining eyes; I am frightened and find neither peace nor courage, O Krishna.

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives

As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

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

That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.