“Enlightenment doesn't mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are everything and everywhere. It doesn't preclude being a student.” MindMeanStatesStudentsEnlightenmentState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom, but in the world of enlightenment you have to find it, enter into it.” WorldMayResponsibilityTeacherStudentsEnlightenmentBeing TrueEnlightenedClassroom Author:Frederick Lenz
“Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion” SinCompassionTeachPracticeStudyStudentsEnlightenmentEssenceProfoundToleranceRelyEmptinessUrgesGrammarRefrainDualism Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna
“Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don't look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.” LooksBookTurnsParentRichStudentsMountainAuthorityEnlightenmentConcernNeglectedAssertionCampusParentalHystericalTransgressionParental Authority Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.” ShouldAttitudeStudentsBuddhismEnlightenmentBuddhistEnlightenedEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” JobsTeacherTeachingStudentsBuddhismEnlightenmentGainsBuddhistEnlightenedEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.” SportsStudentsBuddhismEnlightenmentAthleteCompetitive Sports Author:Frederick Lenz
“As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.” WorldWritingBookHelpingFoundStudentsCommunicationInternetDisciplineEnlightenmentIdealsCornersFranceRevolutionaryGraduatesAcademicOxfordGraduate Students Author:Robert Darnton
“There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?” PeopleTryingHas BeensSchoolYoungTurnsStruggleCreativeTakenStudentsCollegeTrainingEnlightenmentTestsOppositesConstantTrainEducationalDebtPassingPassingsConformityTrapsInquiryImposingIndoctrinationEducational SystemConstant StruggleVocational TrainingPassing A Test Author:Noam Chomsky
“There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When journalists, policymakers, and legislators address topics such as the wage gap, gender and education, or women's health, they turn to these experts for enlightenment. For the most part, they peddle misinformation, victim politics, and sophistry. They claim that their teachings represent the academic consensus, but that is only because they have excluded all dissenters.” WritingTurnsTeachStudyToo MuchTeachingFashionStudentsTheoryEnlightenmentClaimsVictimGenderBelieverJournalistExpertsAddressesGapsConformityAcademicTopicsConsensusIdeologicalTextbooksLegislatorsExcludedMisinformationTrue BelieverSophistryWomen's Health Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters, if they practice sincerely they attain enlightenment. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. This is because the four elements and five clusters and plants, trees, fences and walls are fellow students; because they are of the same essence, because they are the same mind and the same life, because they are the same body and the same mechanism.” IfsLifeMindFirstsBodyPracticeFiveFourTreeStudentsWallElementsEnlightenmentFirst TimeEssenceFellowsPlantMechanismFenceSincerelyLearnersPlant A TreeClustersBuddha NatureFour Elements Author:Dogen