Quotes About Enlightenment

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Para Cioran, toda forma de elevación presupone lo inútil: "Una excepción inútil, un modelo al que nadie haga caso -ese es el rango al que debemos aspirar si queremos enaltecernos a nosotros mismos

He or she that ignored wisdom and knowledge, ignored his or her deliverances

?u anda, sana güzel bir söz söyleyebilmek için, on bin kitap okumu? olmay? isterdim" dedi: Gene de az geli?mi? bir cümle söylemeden içim rahat etmeyecek: "Seni tan?d???ma çok sevindim kendi çap?mda...

Neden baz? insanlar, baz? ?eyleri hiç bilmiyorlar? Duysalar, dinleseler, hatta kar??lar?nda görseler bile bilmiyorlar.

Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

More people die           Of unenlightened self-interest           Than of any other disease.

Some people have a sense of unearthly things, just as others have an excellent sense of smell or hearing or taste. They can feel the subtle shifts in the great and complicated body of the world. And some of these have so honed that inner sight that they can even tell where a holy spark has fallen, notice its glow in the very place you would least expect it. The worse the place, the more fervently the spark gleams, flickers— and the warmer and purer is its light.

He looks like a guy who discovered not so long ago that he's not really so different from everybody else - thus attaining, in other words, his own enlightenment. (page 408)

O?wiecenie zaczyna si? wtedy, gdy cz?owiek traci wiar? w dobro i porz?dek ?wiata. O?wiecenie jest wyrazem nieufno?ci.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

The virtues acquired are the flesh of Christ and whoever eats it will find inner freedom. The contemplation of creatures is the blood of Christ and whoever drinks it will be enlightened by him. The knowledge of God is the breast of Christ and whoever rests on it will be a theologian. Evagrius of Pontus Mirror for Monks,

The act of correctly seeing this world from this state of concentration (jyo) and the world of samadhi is called "wisdom." In other words, wisdom is the act of perceiving things of this world as they truly are.

Eventually there will be a time when the pursuing self and the pursued mu are brought into oneness. It is then that mu becomes the self, and the self becomes mu. Both will then be smashed and transcended simultaneously.

If we analyze the character for zen, we find that it combines the radical shi (to show) with the character tan (single).

think that the essential point of Zen lies in "proof," which is variously called "right awareness of no-self," "seeing one's original self-nature," and so on.

An ancient saying goes, "Spend three years without learning before you choose your teacher." We should select our teacher carefully enough before we become his disciple. Once we choose our teacher, we should follow him faithfully until we attain enlightenment.

The publication Koan Kaito Shu15 (The Collection of Answers to Koan)

All beings are primarily Buddhas," can be called the primary statement of the essence of Buddhism. According to scholars of religion, religion means the completion of the individual as the Whole.

It goes without saying that the method of melting the ice of our egos into water, as they originally are, lies in samadhi.

Accordingly, if we put it in extreme terms, all types of Zen other than Patriarchal Zen are inauthentic. However, in a positive sense, it may be said that Zen Outside the Way (Gedo Zen), Common Zen (Bompu Zen), Zen of the Mouth and Head (Koto Zen), Literary Zen (Moji Zen), Zen for Health (Kenko Zen), Zen for Medical Treatment (Ryoyo Zen), and all the rest exist within the realm of Patriarchal Zen.

the mind of nondiscriminating discrimination which Master Bankei calls the Unborn Buddha Mind. He writes, "To see and hear things without any preparation to see and hear them is called Unborn Mind.