Home / Quotes / Quote by Namkhai Norbu

Quote by Namkhai Norbu

“Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.”

Quote by Namkhai Norbu

Author

Namkhai Norbu, born on December 8, 1938, is a renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher. Born in Tibet, he received traditional Buddhist education from a young age and later became an outstanding scholar and teacher. Namkhai Norbu is dedicated to spreading Tibetan Buddhist culture and teaching Tibetan and Buddhist philosophy worldwide. more

You May Also Like

“But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.”

Self Would Be Lost Growth Behinds Consciousness Mystery Mindfulness Conscious Infinite Appearance Giants Immortal Emerging Self Conscious Seeming Forgetfulness Self Forgetfulness

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration of this point produces a profound change in the individual's response to the world. Grasping and aversion is greatly diminished, and the emotional tangles that once seemed so compelling are experienced as the tug of dream stories, and no more.”

“If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.”

Ifs World Mean Persons Reality Artist Energy Views Source Mindfulness Universal New World Traits Rooted Neurotic Pouring Lunatic World View Old World New Energy

Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.”

Knows Humans Difficult Loses Focus Normal Comfortable Mindfulness Tasks Independence Tendencies Being True Distraction Dissipation

Book:The 2012 Collection

Source: The 2012 Collection

“We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.”

Moving Grows Process Wise Mindfulness Independence Characteristics Unconscious Spirals

Author:Carl Jung

“All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not freely take upon ourselves this pre-acceptance of the pain and torment, they will be visited upon us in an otherwise necessary individual and universal collapse. Anyone disassociated from his origin and his spiritually sensed task acts against origin. Anyone who acts against it has neither a today nor a tomorrow.”

Ifs Today Pain Individual Difficult Achieve Acceptance Tomorrow Mindfulness Tasks Universal Painful Genuine Collapse Torment Diligence

Author:Jean Gebser

“To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, one's initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.”

Thinking Way Whole Views Practice Mindfulness Originals Excellence Realization Initials Identical Anticipate Dharma Negotiating

Book:Zen and Western Thought

Source: Zen and Western Thought

“The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”

Suffering Mindfulness Foundation Illness Mental Illness

Author:Carl Jung

“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.”

“A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!”