Buddhism Quote by Gary Snyder

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

— Bodhidharma

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

— Alan Cohen

“May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation and the…

— Tulku Urgyen

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

— Frederick Lenz

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

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

— Dalai Lama

If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will…

— Frederick Lenz

There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having…

— Masaaki Hatsumi

I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the…

— Sakyong Mipham

To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.

— Tenzin Palmo

People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually…

— Brad Warner