Quotes About Wisdom

Non bastano le disgrazie a fare di un fesso una persona intelligente.

The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

But, if we regard knowledge as an antique, as "ancient wisdom" to be collected, then we are on the wrong path.

Shambhala vision teaches that in the face of the world's great problems, we can be heroic and kind at the same time.

When we speak of "ignorance" we do not mean stupidity at all. In a sense, ignorance is very intelligent, but it is a completely two-way intelligence. That is to say, one purely reacts to one's projections rather than just seeing what is. There is no situation of "letting be" at all, because one is ignoring what one is all the time. That is the basic definition of ignorance.

The idea is that when the teaching begins to happen, it is an experience—but experience needs language, and at the same time, language needs experience.

The Root Text of the Seven Points of Training the Mind, and on the commentary by Jamgön Kongtrül.

By relaxing the mind, you can reconnect with that primordial, original ground, which is completely pure and simple. Out of that, through the medium of your perceptions, you can discover magic, or drala. You actually can connect your own intrinsic wisdom with a sense of greater wisdom or vision beyond you.

The basic act of surrender does not involve the worship of an external power. Rather it means working together with inspiration, so that one becomes an open vessel into which knowledge can be poured.

When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as the are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. you find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.

The Heart Sutra ends with "the great spell" or mantra. It says in the Tibetan version: "Therefore the mantra of transcendent knowledge, the mantra of deep insight, the unsurpassed mantra, the unequalled mantra, the mantra which calms all suffering, should be known as truth, for there is no deception." The potency of this mantra comes not from some imagined mystical or magical power of the words but from their meaning. It

Sacred outlook is not only about thinking everything is good; it is the absence of imprisonment. You begin to experience freedom that is intrinsically good, almost unconditionally free. So the vajra world you are entering is basically good, unconditionally free, fundamentally glorious and splendid.

At first, the mountains are mountains and streams are streams. Then, the mountains are not mountains and streams are not streams. But in the end, mountains are mountains again and streams are streams again.

Chögyam Trungpa

You should absolutely and completely stop all six of those misinterpretations.

Jamgön Kongtrül of Sechen and Khenpo Kangshar—leading teachers in the Nyingma and Kagyü lineages.

nyingje, which literally means "noble heart.

Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

There is a saying in the Tibetan scriptures: "Knowledge must be burned, hammered, and beaten like pure gold. Then one can wear it as an ornament." So when you receive spiritual instruction from the hands of another, you do not take it uncritically, but you burn it, you hammer it, you beat it, until the bright, dignified color of gold appears. Then you craft it into an ornament, whatever design you like, and you put it on.

Always be the worst guy in every band you're in. - so you can learn. The people around you affect your performance. Choose your crowd wisely.

Education requires both a teacher and a student. Many of us are too often reluctant to be a student.

Humility is not just something we develop so we can claim to be more spiritual. It also allows you to see your actions more clearly.

Studying the work of masters is an essential part of becoming amaster.