Quotes About Enlightenment

We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Your nature is the Buddha.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Vast emptiness, nothing holy.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It's like the root of a tree. All a tree's fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on its root. If you nourish its root, a tree multiplies. If you cut its root, it dies. Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this truth, all appearances are empty.

Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.