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“Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.”

Mean Speak Language Teacher Car Enlightenment Hollywood Versions Enlightened Perpetual

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them to countless views of the nagual.”

People Way Speak Views Taught Buddhism Enlightenment Exposed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.”

Way Self Happiness Joy Hope Speak Practice Trust Confidence Offers Mindfulness Enlightenment Self Confidence Joy Happiness

Book:For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition

Source: For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition

“When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.”

Thinking Knows Mind Said Ends Would Be Speak Space Emotion Consciousness Identity Perception Enlightenment Enlightened Sense Perception

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.”

Mean Speak Enlightenment Enlightened

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“My "drop in the ocean" will contribute to the enlightenment of Europe, so to speak.”

Speak Ocean Enlightenment Europe Drops In The Ocean

Author:Varg Vikernes

“If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.”

Ifs World Individual Speak Hell Enlightenment Remove Pretending Go To Hell

Author:Satish Kumar

“However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”

“We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.”

Giving Mind Joy Speak Buddhism Enlightenment Buddhist Enlightened Selfless Our Thoughts Selflessness Nice People Molding Selfless Giving Daily Buddhist Buddhism Happiness Spiritual Buddhist Kind Thoughts

Author:Gautama Buddha

“If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

Source: The Dhammapada

“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.”

“As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect the reality of the 'illusory' world and speak only of Enlightenment. Or else they chatter of cosmic activities leading to transformations, while neglecting the Substance from which they spring--indeed, there is NEVER any profit in discussion.”

People World Mind Reality Evil Speak Activity Spring Enlightenment Mouths Roots Transformation Profit Substance Discussion Branches Neglect Cosmic Illusory Chatter

Author:Huangbo Xiyun