Quotes About Enlightenment

The mind that realizes its own Buddha nature is said to be like clear space—it is empty and all-pervasive but also vividly aware.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." —DORIS LESSING Ordinary

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." —DORIS LESSING

Locke, Montesquieu, many of the philosophers of the European Enlightenment, and the Founders, among others, knew that the history of organized government is mostly a history of a relative few and perfidious men co-opting, coercing, and eventually repressing the many through the centralization and consolidation of authority.

The eight-limbed path, or ashtanga yoga, is: yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi.

As long as the physical universe remains our point of reference, we will never find what we are looking for.

Spirituality is about seeing, waking up out of a deep sleep, remembering what

Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, you become funny.

In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.

Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.

The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper.

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.

The best meditation I ever had, I haven't had yet. It's in the future, which as anyone knows doesn't exist - anyone who meditates knows. But yet, I will have it someday.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.