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“Right now we have obtained a human rebirth and have the opportunity to attain enlightenment through Dharma practice, so if we waste this precious opportunity in meaningless activities there is no greater loss and no greater foolishness.”

Ifs Humans Opportunity Loss Practice Greater Right Now Activity Waste Enlightenment Meaningless Foolishness Rebirth Dharma

Book:Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.”

Thinking Mistake Right Now Happenings Enlightenment Primaries

Author:Adyashanti

“Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.”

States Seems Used Practice Right Now Enlightenment Yoga Connections Deeper Access Dimensions Enlightened Flexibility Yoga Practice

Author:Bryan Kest

“Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.”

Inspirational Understanding Religious Right Now Enlightenment Nowhere To Go

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.”

States Situation Right Now Enlightenment Awful Confused Ambiguity Messy

Book:Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye

Source: Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye

“I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.”

Source: The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.”

“Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist.”

Moments Christ Consciousness Right Now Enlightenment Ultimate Core Realization Tension Persist Relaxation Relaxed Christ Consciousness

Author:Rajneesh

“The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Mind Looks Self Knowing Right Now Jokes Enlightenment Concepts Meetings Cosmic Fascinated Restoration True Nature Self Concept

Author:Adyashanti