Quotes About Enlightenment

Problems exist in the minds of individuals. You have to solve your own problems, no matter what kind of society you live in—socialist, communist or capitalist. You must check your own mind. Your problem is not society's problem, not my problem. You are responsible for your own problems just as you're responsible for your own liberation or enlightenment.

Lord Buddha himself taught that basically, human nature is pure, egoless, just as the sky is by nature clear, not cloudy. Clouds come and go, but the blue sky is always there; clouds don't alter the fundamental nature of the sky. Similarly, the human mind is fundamentally pure.

It is never too late. Even if you are going to die tomorrow, Keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today. If you keep your situation happy day by day, you will eventually reach the greatest happiness of enlightenment. – Lama Yeshe

The Buddhist attitude is that it doesn't matter how many delusions you have, how confused you are, how much sin or negativity you have created, it is possible, absolutely possible, to totally eradicate all of it.

Recognizing the dissatisfactory nature of our existence and renouncing the world in which transitory sense objects contact transitory sense organs to produce transitory feelings, none of which are worth grasping at, we seek instead the everlasting, eternally joyful realizations of enlightenment or nirvana.

Come here, I shall bless you within nonduality;

First to explain ethical discipline: It's the root of higher transmigration; It's the staircase to liberation; It's the antidote to suffering;

He is untainted by elaborations of the eight mundane concerns.77

I shall go savor the supreme taste of Vajrayana.

the Collection of Aphorisms (sometimes referred to as the Tibetan Dhammapada).

Since I am ignorant, please care for me in the best way possible." Make the following supplication as well: If being sick is best, please make me ill; If being cured is best, please restore my health; If being dead is best, please make me die; If long life is best, please prolong my life; If shorter life is best, please shorten my life. May all enjoy the fortune of enlightenment.222

highest yoga tantra meditations, with their ritualized deity-yoga visualizations.

Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment,

Dromtönpa, Ati?a's chief disciple,

Bless me so that I may have nothing to do but practice Dharma.

The Amoghap??a Tantra states: "Wisdom" refers to enlightenment, while "heroic being" indicates skillful means; with these two, the welfare of sentient beings will be achieved.468

If you do not thoroughly exchange Your own happiness with others' suffering, You will not become a buddha. Even in samsara there will be no happiness.178

the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth, just from everything else

And you will know the truth and the truth will make you free.

An enlightened being no longer believes he is a body. The body belongs to Nature, not to him, and so its fate is of no importance. He is One with everything. He sees Goodness everywhere. He is bathed in divine Light. He has become All-Mind.

For the man of vision, all things are good, even if they appear evil to others. When men devise mischief against him, he sees it in the light of his knowledge of Atum, and he — and only he — transforms evil into Goodness.

Most North Korean people have never seen a map of the world. They don't even know that the Internet exists. They don't even have electricity.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.