Quotes About Enlightenment

We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.

Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.

The eye of Ego to the eye of Tao

The enlightened worry more about the problems of the world than about their own problems, and their longing for the well-being of all life grows deeper, making the suffering of all people, all creatures, and all things their own. This is a gift brought by enlightenment, which, at the same time, brings deep anguish.

No matter what stage we are at in our spiritual journey, whether we are beginners or have been traveling a spiritual path for years or decades; and no matter how awakened or asleep we are, there is always absolute truthfulness - the oneness and nothingness - which is our true nature. This true nature resides in everyone. This is the meaning of the statement that everyone is already enlightened.

When I am conscious that I am the master of my brain, I can actively process emotion and information. I develop the insight to see my situation clearly, like when a light bulb is turned on in a dark room.

Peace will not occur magically because one or two individuals awaken to the truth of the nature of harmony and order. Peace will only prosper when the principle of harmonious order becomes common sense rather than a novel idea.

A good basic character should be developed even before discussing enlightenment or the growth of your soul. That's why Zen initiates developed their basic character traits through nine years of study—three years of cleaning, three years of firewood collecting and cutting, and three years of cooking. Teachings on the Tao were transmitted only to those who had successfully cultivated such character in themselves.

No matter how good your eyesight, if you don't open your eyes, you will not see anything. So too with the Tao. Everyone has eyes to see the Tao, but opening those eyes is a separate issue. The Tao is there, in that place beyond the limits of rational logic, judgment, ideas, and ego. To see the Tao, we must take away the blindfold of judgment, ideas, and ego that blinds our eyes.

That absolute, ultimate reality is always there within us (as it is everywhere else, as well). whether we are aware of it or not, it is there, like the sun shining behind the clouds, invisible because of the clouds, but undeniably there. The sun of our inner nature, the LifeParticle Sun, is always shining, whether we see it or not. And because it is already there, we don't need to create or achieve it. We just have to acknowledge it.

When you awaken to true nothingness and all the empty fictions you once thought of as "Me" disappear, then self-existent life without beginning and without end finally touches your heart.

Enlightenment is true love

Then what is a master? A master is someone who actualizes her enlightenment in every day living. Everyone already knows what is right and wrong. But we do not admit hat we know from right and wrong because we don't want to take responsibility that comes with such admission.

Enlightenment is choice.

We have come to earth for the growth and completion of our souls. Though we can discard everything else, we can never discard our soul. Though we have to leave everything behind when we die, the one thing we have to take with us is our soul. Your soul is the substance and essence of who you are. For the growth and completion of your soul, you have been crying, laughing, loving, hating, and learning life's lessons in the training hall of enlightenment that is life.

When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are.

Wer von wenig Wissen nicht profitiert, ist weit davon entfernt, von viel Wissen zu profitieren.

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind .