Quotes About Awareness

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.

God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.

When the blind lead the blind the world is full of casualties.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

Audible at five miles painful at three and lethal at one.