Enlightenment Quotes

[Phoenix11]

Equanimity ?

[Phoenix11]

[Shin]

[Natasha]

13 hours ago, Shin said:

Reminded me of Dory 

[Shin]

2 hours ago, Natasha said:

Reminded me of Dory 

I feel insulted

[Phoenix11]

[Guest EmptyVase]

"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does."

- Terence McKenna

[Natasha]

23 hours ago, EmptyVase said:

"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does."

- Terence McKenna

If it's complicated, it's from Ego. Spirit is simple.

[Guest EmptyVase]

4 hours ago, Natasha said:

If it's complicated, it's from Ego. Spirit is simple.

Got another one, fits perfect. 

"There is so much to read.

There are so many concepts.

There are so many teachings.

You will become a very intelligent idiot."

- Robert Adams

[RickyFitts]

@EmptyVase Yep, that's a distinct possibility ?

[RickyFitts]

[khalifa]

In the knowledge of the Atman,

which is the dark night to the ignorant,

the recollected mind is fully awake and aware.

The ignorant are awake in their sense-life,

which is darkness to the sage.

Bhagavad Gita

 

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You are dreaming that you are unenlightened.

You are dreaming that you are awake.

The question is: Why?

The answer is: Why not?

paradox is normal in the sleep state

“The ‘I’ casts off the illusion of ‘I’ and yet remains as ‘I’. Such

is the paradox of Self-realization. The realized do not see any

contradiction in it.”

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"All paradox lies with the unawakened state. The awakened

don’t have something that the unawakened are missing, it’s

the other way around. The unawakened possess massive

structures of false belief. They create and maintain these

vast realms of past, present and future;"

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"The price of truth is everything. The price of truth is

nothing. This is another way of stating the gateless gate

paradox. From the unawakened side, the gate blocking one

from enlightenment is enormous and impassable. Delusion

fills one’s entire field of view because it resides prior to

perception. Once delusion has been destroyed, we see that it

never really existed."

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Die while you’re alive

and be absolutely dead.

Then do whatever you want:

it’s all good.

Bunan

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The great path has no gates,

thousands of roads enter it.

When you pass through this gateless gate

you walk the universe alone.

Mumon

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“Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being.” ? Adyashanti

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I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born,

have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try,

make a beginning – it is not as hard as you think.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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If the eye never sleeps, all dreams will naturally cease.

If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand

things are as they are, of single essence. To understand

the mystery of this One-essence is to be released from

all entanglements. When all things are seen equally the

timeless Self-essence is reached. No comparisons or

analogies are possible in this causeless, relationless state.

Sosan

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There seem to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek

to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy,

happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish),

and those who understand that all such attempts are just

gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing

that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the

ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their

eternal identity with pure being.

Wei Wu Wei

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If you're not amazed at how naive you were yesterday,

You are standing still.

If you're not terrified of the next step,

You're eyes are closed.

If you're standing still and your eyes are closed,

Then you're dreaming that you're awake.

A caged bird in a boundless sky.

-Jed McKenna

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In all ten directions of the universe,

there is only one truth.

When we see clearly,

the great teachings are the same.

What can ever be lost?

What can be attained?

If we attain something,

it was there from the beginning of time.

If we lose something,

it is hiding somewhere near us.

Look: Th is ball in my pocket:

can you see how priceless it is?

~Ryokan

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The most useful piece of learning for the

uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

~Antisthenes

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“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.”

“The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up.”

“It is your show.

It is your universe. There is no one else here, just you, and nothing is being withheld from you. You are completely on your own. Everything is available for direct knowing. No one else has anything you need. No one else can lead you, pull you, push you or carry you.”

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“The bottom line remains the same: you’re either awake or you’re not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles.”

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“I don’t have something you don’t; you believe something I don’t.”

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“It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.”

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“Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state.”

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“Wake up first. Wake up, and then you can double back and perhaps be of some use to others if you still have the urge. Wake up first, with pure and unapologetic selfishness, or you’re just another shipwreck victim floundering in the ocean and all the compassion in the world is of absolutely no use to the other victims floundering around you.”

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“All fear is ultimately fear of no-self.”

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“The one and only truth of any person lies like a black hole at their very core, and everything else – EVERYTHING else – is just the rubbish and debris that covers the hole. Of course, to someone who’s just going about their normal human existence undistracted by the larger questions, that rubbish and debris is everything that makes them who they are. But to someone who wants to get to the truth, who they are is what’s in the way. All fear is ultimately fear of this inner black hole, and nothing on this side of that hole is true. The process of achieving enlightenment is about the breaking through the blockage and stepping through the hole.”

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“Maybe you think death is the opposite of life, or that all this death-awareness stuff translates into the end of happiness and good times, but this is not the case. Death isn't morbid, fear is morbid. Death doesn't oppose life, fear opposes life. To close your eyes to death is to close them to life: what could be more morbid than that? From your perspective, death and suicide are horrific and unthinkable. From my perspective, they are empowering and lifeaffirming. and I would look at any person that doesn't have an open, honest relationship with these subjects as themselves nine parts dead.”

Edited January 1, 2022 by khalifa

[Phoenix11]

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience.

-from the movie, Dune.

[RickyFitts]

'Without a shift of attention from concept to immediate experience and perception, spirituality tends to degrade into magical thinking, fantasy, and/or fanaticism. It is only by redirecting attention away from the surface level of the mind’s narrative, and towards the pure immediacy of the present, that we can break the trance of ego-identification and fall into conscious connection with our true nature.' - Adyashanti

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