Quotes About Enlightenment

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure, and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would attain Buddhahood.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and to remember our Divine nature.