“The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is. — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things. — Sengcan Copy Share Image
The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
“The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote,… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Suffering offers a path to awareness. Awareness allows us to be re-born. Being re-born, one is able to let go of suffering… — VD Copy Share Image
Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life. — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
“May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation… — Tulku Urgyen Copy Share Image
“Without hope, Chöd practitioners are freed from the limits of hope and fear; having cut the ropes of grasping, definitely enlightened, where… — Machik Labdrön Copy Share Image
The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“express their Buddha-nature to a small extent mostly within their own doors, while so-called good persons, or 'great persons' as the Oriental… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“...the Chöd teachings attributed to Machik Labdrön both rely and innovate on Buddhist representations of mental functionings of a human being, including… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment, or Nirvana, is nothing other than the state beyond all obstacles, in the same way that from the peak of a… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
“I can only say what I myself have learned: that life's purpose is to grow. We have time in abundance- an enternity,… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
“Thus Krishna acknowledges the violence that is implicit in human survival. More than the act of violence, what matters is the thought… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
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