Quotes About Enlightenment

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.

The one who teaches is the giver of eyes.

The noble-minded are all-encompassing, not stuck in doctrines. Little people are stuck in doctrines.

He has not lived in vain who dies the day he is told about the Way

Adev?rata cunoa?tere este a-?i ?ti dimensiunea ignoran?ei.

To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom.

Don't be ignorant your whole life.

I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.

Woden preserve me from the terminally stupid.

Suddenly he realized what was happening.

Dirò che, nel concetto dei toscani, chi non è un uomo libero è un uomo grullo.

Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness.

As we actually taste the flavor of what he's teaching, we begin to see that it's not proverbs for daily living, or ways of being virtuous. He's proposing a total meltdown and recasting of human consciousness, bursting through the tiny acorn-selfhood that we arrived on the planet with into the oak tree of our fully realized personhood. He pushes us toward it, teases us, taunts us, encourages us, and ultimately walks us there.

These sentences, evidently the ripened grain of many dark hours, took Gerald by surprise.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

Put the lights out, we shall see better.

There is a simple way to become a buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Seek nothing else.

Handle even a single leaf of a green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifests through the leaf. This is a power which you cannot grasp with your rational mind. It operates freely, according to the situation, in a most natural way.

When you let go, the dharma fills your hands;

When we break through the barrier and drop off all limitations, we are no longer concerned with conceptual distinctions.

Because earth, grass, trees, walls, tiles, and pebbles in the world of phenomena in the ten directions all engage in buddha activity, those who receive the benefits of the wind and water are inconceivably helped by the buddha's transformation, splendid and unthinkable, and intimately manifest enlightenment.Those who receive these benefits of water and fire widely engage in circulating the buddha's transformation based on original realization.

as long as there is a hope or expectation of some result to be derived from zazen, then zazen is tainted.

who can express the state of having already attained the ineffable?