Quotes About Enlightenment

nothing can happen to any him or her because there is no him or her.

Buddhism suits me 'cuz nobody's in charge. Nobody's decidin' for me if I'm good or bad, goin' to heaven or hell. It's just me workin' on my head, you workin' your head, the friggin' Dalai Lama workin' on his head.

You will not be punished for your anger, Buddha had said. You will be punished by your anger.

She opened to her higher self. The light and power of her massive intellect coursed through her.

Those books were called the Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (DeVorss & Co. Publishers, 1964).

The one-eyed is always beauty in the land of the blind.

Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the 18th century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.

I see at least that all knowledge I wrung from the darkness-- that the darkness flung me-- is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, the darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness and we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

yoga is breaking the bond with suffering

prajñ?nam brahman ("consciousness is Brahman").

The function of the zazen and koan is to undo the system that contains them.

Social justice is about freeing people from the clutches of witch doctors and superstition....

N?u t?t c? là sá»± d?i trá vÄ© ??i. Tôi mong là cái trò l?a d?i Ä'ó cÅ©ng Ä'ã làm t?t c? các ng??i sáng m?t ra

You don't have to work at what you are. Part of what you are is what you think you are, but what you think you are is not all of what you are. It is just an aspect of what you are. Being buddha means being unattached to your thoughts about what you are. If you think you are a worthy person or an unworthy person, not grasping those thoughts is buddha.

It's a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it's happened on your watch.

The disciples had been taught the Old Testament Scriptures their entire lives. They had followed Jesus Himself for three years. But only when He opened their minds did they begin to understand. Only when the risen Christ gave them eyes to see did they begin to recognize the shadow of the New Covenant in the Old, and to view the Old Covenant in the light of the New.

I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet.

I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

I am a person of the 18th century.

I have been following Buddhism since 11 years now. I love the sound of chanting.

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.