When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Those who go on telling you to amend your nature and improve upon yourself are very dangerous people. They are one of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow what 'women's… — Beth Fantaskey Copy Share Image
“Since the beginning of time men in pursuit of wisdom had routinely retreated to mountaintops, caves, and cabins in the woods. So,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Human consciousness is a law of nature. Humankind’s inherent intelligence is an indivisible component inalterably linked to the whole beatitude of the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark. To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will… — Buddha Copy Share Image
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“The return and reintegration with society, which is indispensable to the continuous circulation of spiritual energy into the world, and which, from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Buddha initially excluded women from his monasteries. When pressed, he made their entry conditional upon perpetual subservience to the lowliest (newest) male… — Joel Kramer Diana Astad Copy Share Image
“want to protect and liberate myself permanently from the sufferings of this life and countless future lives. I can accomplish this only… — Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is centered on the principle of two truths, the absolute truth and the relative truth. The absolute is that the true… — Tulku Thondup Copy Share Image
Furthermore, recognizing our lives as pleasurable or miserable depends largely on how our mind interprets them. If you think your life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
“The Enlightenment may have made its most lasting impact in the way we live and think today through its social history. Our… — Louis Dupré Copy Share Image
"Bhagavad Gita" is an examination of consciousness and the desire of human beings and the quest that we have as human beings… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for… — Frederick Lenz 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
“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
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
“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
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
In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants… — Dogen Copy Share Image
To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature,… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“Until the human condition could be resolved it was not safe to acknowledge the different roles men and women played in the… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
“Before enlightenment I believed my ego was me, then enlightenment comes along and no more ego, only the underlying reality. Now it’s… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on… — William James Copy Share Image
[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Everything is taken away from him; he is nothing and has nothing; yet he still feels one thing which utterly compensates for… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Divinity never forces itself upon you. If you are willing, it is always there for you. If you are not willing, it… — Sadhguruuru Copy Share Image
People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you.… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
“O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes. If that is your state then what of our cries? What can… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you’re not… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“Even when I thought, with most other well-informed, though unscholarly, people, that Buddhism and Christianity were alike, there was one thing about… — Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
![“[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it.And how do they leave? How is…” quote by Iain Pears](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f8/iain-pears-9652_absurd_men-prefer-the-foolish-belief-and-the-pa_2814739.jpg)
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