Quotes About Enlightenment

what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..

Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in a thousand lifetimes.

Everything is nothing, but the beauty of nothing is everthing

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

Zen has no business with ideas.

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

The problem with car insurance is that you never know how bad your policy is until you are involved in a car crash. At that point enlightenment begins.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way. One of the major obstacles to what is traditionally called enlightenment is resentment, feeling cheated, holding a grudge about who you are, where you are, what you are. This is why we talk so much about making friends with ourselves, because, for some reason or other, we don't feel that kind of satisfaction in a full and complete way.

ACCORDING TO THE BUDDHA, the lives of all beings are marked by three characteristics: impermanence, egolessness, and suffering or dissatisfaction. Recognizing these qualities to be real and true in our own experience helps us to relax with things as they are.

When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of enlightenment.

Rikpa literally means "intelligence" or "brightness." Behind all the planning and worrying, behind all the wishing and wanting, picking and choosing, the unfabricated, wisdom mind of rikpa is always here. Whenever we stop talking to ourselves, rikpa is continually here.

But the Buddhist teachings are not only about removing the symptoms of suffering, they're about actually removing the cause, or the root, of suffering.

May bodhichitta, precious and sublime, Arise where it has not yet come to be; And where it has arisen may it not decline, But grow and flourish ever more and more. The

When the world is filled with evil, all mishaps, all difficulties, should be transformed into the path of enlightenment.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn't mean that something is wrong.