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“It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings just in order to exist. Some beings also like to cause others to needlessly suffer, just out of pure maliciousness”

World Needs Suffering Order Causes Pure Enlightenment Safety

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.”

Firsts Life Is Suffering Dies Courses Causes Enlightenment Sooner Or Later Harsh One You Love

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.”

Thinking Causes Term Highest Enlightenment My Favorite Karma Yield Rama Best Place

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.”

Body Causes Women Survival Enlightenment Subtle Mechanism Downfall Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.”

Body Energy Causes Women Loses Break Enlightenment Subtle Breaking Down Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.”

Doe Action Pain Suffering Causes Produce Enlightenment Avoidance Pain And Suffering Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.”

Self Moments Hate Causes Enjoy Buddhism Enlightenment Currents Buddhist Etiquette Self Hate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mantras have an important place in meditation. But the idea has become somewhat prevalent in the West, and in the East to some extent, that the simple repetition of a mantra will eventually cause enlightenment”

Important Ideas Causes Simple Meditation Buddhism Enlightenment West East Repetition Mantras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.”

Ifs Enough Suffering Causes Views Feet Expression Photography Enlightenment Photographer Photograph Legs Stuck Artistic Hills Pounds Drag Listeners Equipment Whining Artistic Expression Tripods

Author:Bill Jay

“In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.”

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship.”

Heart Wisdom Light Beautiful Causes Consciousness Path Worship Enlightenment Foundation Intellect Islamic Establishment Illumination Purification Dhikr

Author:Habib Umar bin Hafiz

“Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder is not a tantrum in the sky, disease is not a divine punishment, and not every death or accident results from witchcraft. What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for human feelings.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Self Use Lying Causes Understanding Courage Enlightenment Dare Guidance Inability Emergence Indecision Lack Of Understanding

Author:Immanuel Kant

“In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.”

Thinking Reality Order Causes Understanding Existence Seeing Effects Awareness Enlightenment Cause And Effect

Author:Zeena Schreck