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“And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.”

Long Subjects Birth Enlightenment Birth And Death

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.”

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Author:Dogen

“In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?”

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Author:Dogen

“Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.”

Giving Moments Next Influence Birth Enlightenment Chains Wheels Perpetual Birth And Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.”

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Book:The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

“Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to the Spirit deep within his own self... The philosophic search for enlightenment and the artist's search for perfection of work can meet and unite. Art can be a path to spiritual enlightenment but not to complete and lasting enlightenment. It can be born out of, and can give birth itself to, only Glimpses. For art is a search for beauty, which by itself is not enough. Beauty must be supported by virtue and both require wisdom to guide them.”

“The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.”

Source: Democracy in America

“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”

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Author:E. M. Forster