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“Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still.”

World Mind Stills Wisdom Buddhism Conversation Enlightenment Gains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought”

World Humans Mean Self Facts Age Law Young Science Found Human Beings Pure Enlightenment Gains Agree Impression Fascinated Evident Young Age Succession Scientific Method Regularity

Author:Max Planck

“An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.”

Jobs Teacher Teaching Students Buddhism Enlightenment Gains Buddhist Enlightened Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.”

World Suffering Energy Events This World Buddhism Enlightenment Gains Connections Enlightened Consistently Boundless

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.”

Awareness Buddhism Enlightenment Gains All Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.”

Trying Made Enough Body Moving Fall Teach Masters Enlightenment Gains Train Monk Kung Fu Falling Asleep

Author:RZA

“Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.”

Ifs Life Years Matter Whole Would Be Spirituality Universe Process Taken Evolution Enlightenment Conscious Gains Capacity Awakening Billions Instant

Author:Andrew Cohen

“Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.”

Loss Enlightenment Gains Delusion

Author:Kodo Sawaki

“The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love the impurity you started with. Can any being seriously think that he is going to pass through the infinity of time without ever making another mistake? Quite often a flash of enlightenment will give you this message: Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.”

Thinking Giving Feels Spiritual Mistake Messages Enlightenment Gains Genuine Motive Infinity Flash Impurity Purifying

Book:The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

Source: The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. Once its heart is grasped, you are like the dragon when he gains the water, like the tiger when she enters the mountain. For you must know that just there (in zazen) the right Dharma is manifesting itself and that, from the first, dullness and distraction are struck aside.”

“The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.”

States Whole Life Is Purpose Goal Natural Consciousness Enlightenment Gains Strive Caught Significant Purpose Of Life Caught Up Small Things Exalted States Of Consciousness

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we’re all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we’ve done something we consider wrong, we’re still on our path to enlightenment.”

Stills Different Matter Done Individual Loss Path Ocean Enlightenment Gains Rivers No Matter What Remorse Path To Enlightenment

Book:The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery