The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“The secret of enlightenment is the absolute, unequivocal conviction that it exists. What does that mean? It means you have discovered an… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“consider," replies the geomancer, "--adam and eve ate fruit from a tree, and were enlighten'd. the buddha sat beneath a tree, and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“No one suddenly understood the very important things about life when they were born because it takes time to understand such things!… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“6. Nature Favours Nothing in Particular. There is another point of view of life, which gave the present writer no small contentment,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“[Beings with such realization] do not behold sentient beings, but great compassion still flowers in them. They do not behold themselves either,… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Since I was a big reader, I might be able to accomplish something. I had no gift. That didn’t mean I must… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“What is enlightenment? In its most basic form, it is abiding inner silence. It is directly and automatically experiencing who and what… — Yogani 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
“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 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
“...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
“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
“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
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
Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The coolness of Buddhism isn't indifference but the distance one gains on emotions, the quiet place from which to regard the turbulence.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In Buddhist thought, enlightenment is understood not as the presence of something but as the absence of something: the permanent extinction in… — Simon Parke Copy Share Image
“I thought the Pandavas did what they did for dharma,’ said Janamejaya, suddenly unsure. ‘If that had been true, then Vijaya over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good… — Siddhārtha Gautama Copy Share Image
“book and magazine publishers aren’t in the business of enlightenment. They’re in the business of selling books and magazines, not truth, and… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“Today as you continue to read the Lotus Sutra, and chant Namu Myoho Renge Kyo, and of course continue observing your selected… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The Enlightenment was not a revolutionary movement; it was not even a political movement. It was a collection of scholars, writers, artists… — John Hirst Copy Share Image
“Our potent contemporary cultural sanctuaries shape the Dharma to fit our cultural traditions so that the mirroring needed for spiritual paths to… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“In the split second where you understand a joke you experience a moment of “enlightenment.” This cannot be achieved by “explaining” the… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The most incredible architecture Is the architecture of Self, which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside… — Allan Rufus Copy Share Image
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