“I simply worship Buddha. I ask Buddha for nothing. I ask Dharma for nothing. I ask Samgha for nothing.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Teach those only willing to listen and listen to those only willing to teach” — Justin Southwick Copy Share Image
“We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?” — Rohan and Mohan Perera (World of Ro and Mo Copy Share Image
Many paths lead to the Door of Enlightenment. Beware those that proclaim there is but one. — Mary Summer Rain Copy Share Image
They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“in mysterious ways.” The big change in Buddhism is that it tries to define that problem and, instead” — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not Religion, Enlightenment is Realism.People project or confuse religious dogma with The Awakening It is What it is” — johnjwillard Copy Share Image
True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“There was once a lady who was arrogant and proud. Determined to attain enlightenment, she asked all the authorities how to go… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
With the exception of very few who have gained higher spiritual tendencies in prior lives, Self-realization is not possible for anyone without… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
“Half your life is spent in thinking of the past and the other half in thinking about the future. The journey never… — Osho Copy Share Image
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“That what helps us stabilize our antahkaran (inner complex of mind, intellect, chit and ego) is Religion (dharma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The mind with perceptions is saṁsāra; the mind without perceptions is nirvāna.” — Rulu Copy Share Image
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Gurus Enable you to see new things. The trouble with Gurus is that you can rarely see beyond them. — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“At last the bottom fell out. No more water in the pail. No more moon in the water.” — as the character Wendy John Gould in the short story Copy Share Image
The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
“To control the mind is like controlling the Lord of the fourteen worlds.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. — John Boehner Copy Share Image
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