Quotes About Enlightenment

The bikku should not rest content until mental intoxicants are fully extinct.

Look at the body as a royal chariot to which the ignorant cling, while the wise let go.

Faith is having a path that leads you to freedom, liberation, and the transformation of afflictions.

In a place where there is something that can be distinguished by signs, in that place there is deception. If you can see the signless nature of signs, then you can see the Tathagata.

Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain.

In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the answer to every question.

From our earliest days, education has been a hallmark of our company. It was Walt himself who said, "We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment—as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see

People should know more than what was or will be. People must know that which must never be." -- Theodore Sturgeon

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a while, we see that mountains are again mountains. Now the mountains are very free. Our mind is still with the mountains, but it is no longer bound to anything.

He saw that the key to liberation would be to break through ignorance and to enter deeply into the heart of reality and attain a direct experience of it. Such knowledge would not be the knowledge of the intellect, but of direct experience.

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to peace, peace is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.

Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope that we sacrifice the present moment. Hope is for the future. It cannot help us discover joy, peace, or enlightenment in the present moment.

When mindfulness is present, the Buddha and the Holy Spirit are already there

The teachings of the Buddha could be summarized in four short sentences. ... [The Buddha] said ... The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

We are all mother's of the Buddha because we are all pregnant with the potential for awakening.