Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!
Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.
The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever.
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.
When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment.
The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.
She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin. This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.
Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.
The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now.
You can experience ecstasy in any dimension and at any time. Enlightenment is not related to where your physical or astral body may be, or to any experiences that you may be having with them. Enlightenment is beyond dimensionality
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.