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 October 28 by Ajay0

[UnbornTao]

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I thought I was myself...

 

[Ajay0]

The Self, our Being, is awareness. ~ Sri Muruganar

To remain unconscious of Being is to be trapped within an ego-driven wasteland of conflict, strife, and fear that only seems customary. ~ Adyashanti

 

The false self grows and thrives in unconscious being. When we are asleep to Being, our attention becomes entranced by mind—the vast array of ideas, images, beliefs, habits, opinions, and judgments that we have been conditioned to identify as self. ~ Adyashanti

    The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.~ Eckhart Tolle
 

"There is no conflict in you, the Self. If there is conflict, it is between thought and thought. As long as the sense of 'I' and 'other' is believed, conflict is inevitable,". ~ Mooji 

[Ramasta9]

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

[VeganAwake]

Every path taken is perfection, but knowing it's also where you stand is the freedom!

[Yimpa]

To genuinely not know anything is the only honest position left after seeing through all the illusions, including your own sense of self.

Complete openness. No script, no stance, no story about who’s right or what is true.

Just presence meeting whatever’s actually here, now!

Enlightenment,  not bound by any conditions whatsoever.

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[Mellowmarsh]

 "gentle as a lamb, bold as a lion" 

 

[Ajay0]

"People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that we are conscious; we are not conscious. The moment you become conscious, all unconscious actions disappear from your life.

Your life starts moving in a new dimension. Your each act comes out of inner clarity; your each response is virtuous, is virtue. To live unconsciously is to live in sin; to live consciously is to be virtuous, is to be religious. And to live in total awareness is to be a buddha, is to be a christ." ~ Osho

 

"I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious -- that is right. Don't be unconscious because that is wrong. And then whatsoever you do in consciousness is right.

But people are living in unconsciousness. And let me tell you: in unconsciousness you may think you are doing something right, but it can't be right. Out of unconsciousness, virtue cannot flower; it may appear virtuous but it can't be. Deep down it will still be something wrong. If you are unconscious and you give money to a poor man, watch: your ego is strengthened. This is sin."

~ Osho

[Ramasta9]

We are drowning in knowledge but starving in wisdom.

[Ajay0]

Awareness is the quintessential teaching of the Buddha–from the awareness of cool air as you breath in and then out, to the profound awareness of natural perfection. And with boundless compassion and courage, the sole purpose and activity of all the Buddhas it is to ring the alarm bell that brings us to this awareness. ~ Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

 

“Awareness itself allows us to stand at the river’s edge without getting sucked into the current. We are liberated from the tyranny of the monkey-mind.

Thoughts are still there. They may be quiet or turbulent, focused or wild and scattered. But we have stopped identifying with them. We have become the awareness, not the thoughts." ~ Mingyur Rinpoche


If you conquer the primordial nature by distinguishing mind from awareness, the view of the absolute will naturally become clear…One day, as your confidence in awareness grows, mind will appear as witless as a child, and awareness as wise as a venerable old sage. Awareness will not run after mind, but eclipse it. In a relaxed, serene state, rest with ease. ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

[Ramasta9]

What is truly seen cannot be shown.

What is truly heard cannot be spoken.

What is truly felt cannot be touched.

~ Yours truly