Enlightenment Quotes

[UnbornTao]

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The wise know nothing at all - well, maybe one song.

- Ikkyu

 

Edited September 5 by UnbornTao

[Yimpa]

I choose Truth, even when it’s uncomfortable, over Falsehood that betrays me.

[Ajay0]

"To differentiate the thinking mind and awareness, one must arrive solely in awareness.

The thinking mind as the expression of awareness should be abandoned. When awareness is recognized, then the thinking mind is self-abandoned. Mind is changing, and awareness is unchanging. In this way, the two are differentiated.

Look at the sky, which is unchanging, and the clouds, which are changeable; clouds are like the thinking mind and the space is like rigpa, awareness.
The clouds change again and again, but space never changes. Awareness is both unceasing and unchanging." ~ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

[Ajay0]

"Consider a glass filled with muddy water. Though the nature of the water is pure and clear, when stirred, it becomes mixed with mud, and all we see is murky water.

In the same way, at the most basic level, our lack of mindfulness and awareness stirs up all manner of behaviors, thoughts, and emotions, blending and interfering with one another, so that the clear, luminous mind becomes clouded and confused. "

~ Dzongsar Khyentse rinpoche


"Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware." ~ Dr. Frederick Lenz


“With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion.” ~ Noah Levine

Edited October 16 by Ajay0

[Ajay0]

"To differentiate the thinking mind and awareness, one must arrive solely in awareness.

The thinking mind as the expression of awareness should be abandoned. When awareness is recognized, then the thinking mind is self-abandoned. Mind is changing, and awareness is unchanging. In this way, the two are differentiated.

Look at the sky, which is unchanging, and the clouds, which are changeable; clouds are like the thinking mind and the space is like rigpa, awareness.

The clouds change again and again, but space never changes. Awareness is both unceasing and unchanging." ~ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

 

'The mind must learn that beyond the moving mind there is the background of awareness which does not change.' ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

'Don't mistake the weather of

your mind
for the sky of your being.' ~ Jeff Foster

Edited Tuesday at 11:40 AM by Ajay0

[UnbornTao]

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I thought I was myself...