There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . . — E. J. Gold Copy Share Image
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation? — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them. — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
“Ignorance causes pain, but awareness creates happiness. Therefore, look for enlightenment every day.” — Linda Alfiori Copy Share Image
I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“If you attain unsurpassable, complete enlightenment, all sentient beings also attain it. The reason is that all sentient beings are aspects of… — Dōgen Copy Share Image
“The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human… — Albert Low Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“the question, "What and who is Buddha?" Yuen Wu (En-go) replied: "Hold your tongue: the mouth is the gate of evils!" while… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“To sit a long sesshin is a major blow to our hopes and dreams, the barriers to enlightenment. And to say that… — Charlotte J. Beck Copy Share Image
I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love,… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
“The first words that are read by seekers of enlightenment in the secret, gong-banging, yeti-haunted valleys near the hub of the world,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah ,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“What does the satsang (spiritual discourse) also ultimately state? Do not 'do'. Just keep Seeing the effect that unfolds.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.” — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first hour after birth we see the world as it is. It takes the rest of our life to journey back… — Skye Milo Copy Share Image
Philosophical enlightenment, musical composition, writing and scientific observation keep me sane. - Johnny Luckett — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“in the pursuit of knowledge: everyday something is added. in the pursuit of enlightenment: everyday something is dropped.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
