Quotes About Enlightenment

What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is awareness of what we are, of what our true situation really is.

Buda llamó al sufrimiento la Santa Verdad, porque nuestro sufrimiento tiene la capacidad de mostrarnos la senda de la liberación.

This is the great insight of the Mahayana—that everyone can become a Buddha. What Siddhartha achieved, all of us can also achieve, whether we are a man or a woman, no matter what social class or ethnic group we were born into, or whether we practice as a monastic or as a layperson. We all have the capacity to become a fully enlightened Buddha. And while on the path to becoming a fully enlightened Buddha, we are all bodhisattvas.

Bhikshu, you should know that the Tathagata is the Dharma King. If the Tathagata says something then those words are not false, they are always true. If the Tathagata says something exists, that is true. If the Tathagata says something does not exist, that is also true. If the Tathagata teaches the Mahayana, it is true. And if the Tathagata teaches the Hinayana, it is also true.

The Buddha recommends we live our daily life in this way, seeing everything in the light of interbeing. Then we will not be caught in our small self.

One of the Buddha's most widely quoted phrases is attadipa saranam, which means taking refuge (saranam) in the island (dipa) of self (atta).

Similarly by looking deeply into the nature of impermanence and no self, you can also touch the nature of nirvana.

Once one knows who one is, there is no need to be concerned about where one will go, whether it be the Pure Land, paradise, or Sukh?vat? (the Land of Great Happiness).

The essence of Zen is Awakening. This is why one does not talk about Zen, one experiences it .

Nonfear is the cream of the Buddha's teaching. Practicing

In Buddhism, knowledge constitutes the greatest obstacle to Awakening.

The Zen practitioner must . . . strive to liberate himself from his attachment to knowledge and to open the door of his being in order that truth might enter.

Zen Master Lin Chi once said: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet the Patriarch, kill the Patriarch. For the one who only has devotion, this declaration is terrible; it confuses him completely. But its effect depends on the mentality and capacity of the one who hears. If the man is strong, he truly will have the capacity to liberate himself from all authority, whatever it might be, and to accomplish in himself ultimate truth.

Truth is reality itself and not concepts. If we cling to a certain number of concepts and consider them as being reality, we lose reality.

Many of us have spent our whole lives learning, questioning, and searching. But even on the path of enlightenment, if all we do is study, we're wasting our time and that of our teacher.

To cultivate mindfulness in ourselves is to cultivate the Buddha within, to cultivate the Holy Spirit.

After the Jon Fitch fight, about being confused, the Lord's really given me clarity and shined a light on where he wants me to go, how I could answer the calling he's given me.

Marianne Williamson

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.