Enlightenment One-liners

[Leo Gura]

"I truly attained nothing from complete enlightenment."  -- Buddha

[Guivs]

"Enlightenment is the ego's final disappointment" - Chogyam Trungpa 

[Robert66]

No one is coming to save you

[Kevin Dunlop]

On 28/8/2016 at 8:18 PM, Leo Gura said:

"I truly attained nothing from complete enlightenment."  -- Buddha

Since I had not even a bowl myself, I experience boundless freedom from all impediments.EMPTY CLOUD
The Autobiography of the Chinese Zen Master

[Kevin Dunlop]

Even if you managed to advance a further step, thus realizing the ‘first fruit’,9 you would only be a ‘self-enlightened fellow’ (Pratyeka Buddha). But as for a Bodhisattva, his quest is for Buddhahood from ‘above’ for the conversion and liberation of living beings here ‘below’, his way being to pursue self-liberation for the liberation of others, leaping to the supramundane plane without fleeing from the mundane. Dharma Master Yang-jing

[Guivs]

"The one you are looking for is the one who is looking" - St. Francis of Assisi

[cetus]

Emptiness is the mere absence of a false way of existing

[cetus]

My cup will be empty when I finish it.

[Clayman]

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

[Kevin Dunlop]

With the ways of the intellect you won’t see beyond intellect. - Tilopa

[Kevin Dunlop]

1 minute ago, Kevin Dunlop said:

With the ways of the intellect you won’t see beyond intellect. - Tilopa

 your conditioned identity wont see beyond yourself. 

[Kevin Dunlop]

On 27/8/2016 at 6:49 PM, philosogi said:

Let go

Wake up

Hi I printed the book Empty Cloud thanks for posting the link, good read

 

[Kevin Dunlop]

On 28/8/2016 at 8:18 PM, Leo Gura said:

"I truly attained nothing from complete enlightenment."  -- Buddha

when will you truely want nothing?

 

[Sri McDonald Trump Maharaj]

"For forty years I’ve been selling water By the bank of a river. Ho, ho! My labors have been wholly without merit."

-Sogaku Harada Roshi

[Telepresent]

Further

[JKG]

You are emptiness experiencing itself as form

[Esoteric]

You eat God and excrete truth four hours later

[pluto]

You simply cannot imagine non-existence, now what does that tell you?

[Mr Blak]

I love this topic! I use lines as pointers, and reminders of what is important, what is to be the focus of my experience, I have looked through my notes, here are some lines that I use: 

Be Still, Know That I AM  - Eckhart Tolle. 

As Within, So Without. 

To embrace life is to embrace death, learn how to die.

It is happening, it is what life does, that is all. 

Connect to the aliveness of this moment, to the flow. 

When you are working properly, you don't feel it. - Alan Watts 

Allow everything to be as it is, from here true and wise decisions can be made. - Adyashanti 

Your path will be revealed to you through your experience,  your intuition.

I don't mind. - Mooji 

Live like you don't exist. - Mooji 

Die to the known. - Krishnamurti 

Purpose can reside, exist, in the action itself. 

The truth of who you are does not need an answer. 

What happens after that, is what happens after that. 

Feelings are just visitors. - Mooji

The mind shines the light of one candle, being and awareness, the light of ten thousand suns. 

What you do is what happens to you, what happens to you is what you do.  - Alan Watts 

You cannot have one without the 'other'. 

Always be, always becoming.

We question not for an answer, but to experience whatever is true.

Perhaps it is not for your to decide, it is not for you to know.

Experience is truth, the rest is belief.

Question not, how can I be more comfortable, but how can I perceive more clearly. - Adyashanti 

Feel the fabric and texture of life, let it inspire you.

Love is to celebrate the Grace in another, to celebrate the Grace of this. 

To think according to appearance is easy, to think according to truth is difficult. - Wallace Wattles

Most of our suffering is generated by trying to escape it, the harder you try to get out, the more trapped you are.

One who looks outside dreams, one who looks inside awakes. - Buddha 

Abandon yourself, to yourself, to what is. 

Your destiny will unfold precisely in accordance to the truth of who you are, it can not be otherwise.

Not my will, but the heart's will be done. - Adyashanti 

Your experience of life is determined how you are within yourself. - Sadguru 

Develop an openness to possibility, ask for a space of curiosity.

A man needs a little madness, or else ... he never dares cut the rope and be free. - Zorba 

Work in terms of essence, instead of details.  

Learn the art of dying. - Bruce Lee  

There are no separate events. - Adyashanti 

Take no thought for the morrow. 

Not what should be, but what is. - Alan Watts 

When you get out of the driver's seat, Life can drive itself, for itself. - Adyashanti 

Ego is the resistance to life. - Adyashanti 

There is you, and whatever is happening ... it isn't good, bad, right or wrong, it is simply what is happening. 

Not that which the eye can see, but that whereby the eye can see ... - The Kena Upanishad

Only through the heart can you touch the sky.

We are moved by the completeness and totality of life itself.  - Adyashanti 

Enlightenment is the absolute cooperation with the inevitable. - Anthony de Mello 

Whatever is happening, it's happening right now. Say yes to it. 

-- and my favorite mantra

There but through the Grace of God go 'I' 

 

 

Edited October 20, 2016 by Mr Blak

[cetus]

I was once obsessed with enlightenment. What was I thinking?

Edited October 20, 2016 by cetus56