Quotes About Enlightenment

Voltaire called the calculus "the Art of numbering and measuring exactly a Thing whose Existence cannot be conceived." See Letters Concerning the English Nation p. 152

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Tanr? sadece nur deÄŸil, bir aÄŸaç yeÅŸerdiÄŸinde açan son çiçektir. Tüm yarat?lanlar?n sonunda varaca?? kurtuluÅŸ noktas? deÄŸildir yaln?zca ya da sadece tüm varl???n eksiksiz ve kusursuz hal? deÄŸildir. Tanr? ayn? zamanda tüm temel belirsizliklerin en çapra??k ve gizli sebepleridir. OlaÄŸanüstü paradokslar? içine alan derin ve psikolojik bir hakikattir.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

Modern man can't see God because he doesn't look low enough.

Lama Tenzing, we are all equal beings in the universe," he'd told me more than once. "If you hold others in the thought that they are victims, you rob them of their power. If you hold others as fully responsible for their own destiny, you ennoble them by treating them as equals.

Anticipating the collapse of secular reason, Hamann thus brings us to a decidedly postmodern crossroads, at which point one can take the road of faith, which, as an inspired tradition attests, leads to ever greater enlightenment; or one can take the road of postmodern unbelief, which leads to nihilism. Simply put, the alternative is one between Hamann and postmodernity. 15

If you want to dwell in the Buddha way And gain natural wisdom, You should always be diligent about making offerings To those who receive and embrace the Dharma Flower.

The Buddha preached this sutra for eight thousand eons without resting. When he had finished preaching it, he entered a quiet room and meditated for eighty-four thousand eons.

I also see bodhisattvas Who leave behind all play and laughter And all foolish companions, And seek association with the wise. Single-mindedly removing distractions, Concentrating their thoughts while in mountain forests, For tens of thousands of millions of years, They seek the Buddha way.

The number of eons since that buddha passed into extinction until now still vastly exceeds that number by innumerable, unlimited hundreds of thousands of billions of eons. Yet by the power of the Tathagata's insight, I observe that distant time as if it were today.

The buddhas, the most honored of people, Know that nothing exists independently, And that buddha-seeds arise interdependently. This is why they teach the one vehicle. Things are part of the everlasting Dharma, And the character of the Dharma in the world endures forever. Having come to know this at the place of the Way, Leaders and teachers teach it in skillful ways.

In continuous, Unending suffering, They are firmly rooted in the five desires Like an ox chasing its own tail. Blinded by greed and desire, They are blind and can see nothing. Seeking neither the Buddha With his great power Nor the Dharma, Which can bring an end to suffering. With deeply entrenched wrong views, They try to use suffering to get rid of suffering.

By cutting off pride and arrogance, He has acquired such a glorious body.

Medicine King, after the extinction of the Tathagata, if there are good sons or good daughters who want to teach this Dharma Flower Sutra for the four groups, how should they teach it? Such good sons or good daughters should enter the room of the Tathagata, put on the robe of the Tathagata, sit on the seat of the Tathagata, and then teach this sutra everywhere for the four groups.

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe (Very wise is he that can know himself.)

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

If you are at least trying to make sense of the senseless, then you are moving toward the Light. What we live through and continue in spite of is our spiritual lesson.

Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know.

One of the best means for this is the Eightfold Path expounded by the Buddha: 1. Right view 2. Right intention 3. Right speech 4. Right action 5. Right livelihood 6. Right effort 7. Right mindfulness 8. Right meditation