Quotes About Enlightenment

God only is wise.

wonder is the beginning of wisdom

Aku tahu bahwa aku tidak tahu apa-apa

Yo solo sé que no sé nada.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La verdadera Sabiduría está en reconocer la propia ignorancia" (Sócrates)

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.

OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM

Do not make the mistake of imagining that the nature of mind is exclusive to our mind only. It is in fact the nature of everything. It can never be said too often that to realize the nature of mind is to realize the nature of all things.

Now when the bardo of this life is dawning upon me, I will abandon laziness for which life has no time, Enter, undistracted, the path of listening and hearing, reflection and contemplation, and meditation, Making perceptions and mind the path, and realize the "three kayas": the enlightened mind;4 Now that I have once attained a human body, There is no time on the path for the mind to wander.

When your amnesia over your identity begins to be cured, you will realize finally that dak dzin, grasping at self, is the root cause of all your suffering. You will understand at last how much harm it has done both to yourself and to others, and you will realize that both the noblest and the wisest thing to do is to cherish others instead of cherishing yourself. This will bring healing to your heart, healing to your mind, and healing to your spirit. It

You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

We need to make a very clear distinction between what is in our ego's self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest; it is from mistaking one for the other that all our suffering comes.

A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion. More

As the Buddha said: "I have shown you the way to liberation, now you must take it for yourself.

the central truth of Buddha's teaching: that we are all already essentially perfect.

One of the greatest Buddhist traditions calls the nature of mind "the wisdom of ordinariness.

It is meditation that slowly purifies the ordinary mind, unmasking and exhausting its habits and illusions, so that we can, at the right moment, recognize who we really are.

Do the Guru Yoga practice, imagining with special intensity the rays of light streaming out from your master and purifying you, burning away all your impurities, your illness too, and healing you; your body melting into light; and merging your mind, in the end, with his wisdom mind, in complete confidence.

If all the harms Fears and sufferings in the world Arise from self-grasping, What need have I for such a great evil spirit?

the root of all our suffering in samsara is ignorance.

what is in our ego's self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest;

And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

Be free of attachment and aversion. Keep your mind pure. And unite your mind with the Buddha.

Buddha Maitreya, whose name means "loving kindness