Quotes About Enlightenment

Del mismo modo que si metes un dedo en el agua te lo mojas, y si lo metes en el fuego te lo quemas, si instalas tu mente en la mente de sabiduría de los budas se transformará en su naturaleza de sabiduría.

My interest in material wealth and greed for possessions were replaced by a thirst for spiritual understanding and a passionate desire to see world conditions improve.1

space dissolves into luminosity":

The outer teacher introduces you directly to the truth of your inner teacher.

Help me, inspire me to purify all my karma and negative emotions, and to realize the true nature of my mind!

the true meaning of "blessing"—a transformation in which your mind transcends into the state of the absolute.

the six realms of samsara: hell, hungry ghost, animal, human, demigod, and god realms, respectively.

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is through the heart.

The word "bardo" is commonly used to denote the intermediate state between death and rebirth, but in reality bardos are occurring continuously throughout both life and death, and are junctures when the possibility of liberation, or enlightenment, is heightened.

The "inner science" of Buddhism is based, as one American scholar puts it, "on a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of reality, on an already assessed, depth understanding of self and environment; that is to say, on the complete enlightenment of the Buddha.

For what happens at the moment of death is that the ordinary mind and its delusions die, and in that gap the boundless sky-like nature of our mind is uncovered. This essential nature of mind is the background to the whole of life and death, like the sky, which folds the whole universe in its embrace.

The "task" for which the "king" has sent us into this strange, dark country is to realize and embody our true being.

No one anywhere was angry, ill, or sad; no one did evil, none was proud; the world became quite quiet, as though it had reached full perfection.

Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer 'yes' to both of these, then you have really understood impermanence.

Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

pure awareness of nowness is the real buddha

to realize the nature of mind is to realize the nature of all things.

It means a person, any person, who has completely awakened from ignorance and opened to his or her vast potential of wisdom. A buddha is one who has brought a final end to suffering and frustration, and discovered a lasting and deathless happiness and peace.

the buddha nature, the seed of enlightenment

Mind itself is Padmasambhava; there is no practice or meditation apart from that.

Good in the Middle is the frame of mind with which we enter into the heart of the practice, one inspired by the realization of the nature of mind, from which arises an attitude of nongrasping, free of any conceptual reference whatsoever, and an awareness that all things are inherently "empty," illusory, and dreamlike.

Si estamos aquí es para encarnar lo trascendente.

the heart, the eye, and the life-force of true practice.

enlightenment is the real nature of our minds.