The Enlightenment Quotes
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.
You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.
At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.
Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.
There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.
Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.
The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.
The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.
There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.
What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.
Examine what you do and examine what other women do. Examine the dreams that men hold of you and how they force you in a corner, literally and figuratively.
To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.
If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words.
You have developed the second attention much more than you realize and you use it more than you realize as a woman. That's why I feel women can attain enlightenment more easily than men.
More men will continue to attain enlightenment than women, unless women change their use of the second attention.
Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.
I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.
For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.
Through the proper application of kundalini, a woman can quickly become aware of the tremendous power that resides inside herself and reach enlightenment.
Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.
You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having to climb to the top over each other.
As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.
If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.
Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.
What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.
Women have allowed you to think that, which is a part of their inaccessibility in using their second attention.
The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.
Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away.
If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down.
These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.
The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in most cases, is going to be extremely destructive.
She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.
Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.
Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong.
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.
Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations
I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men who are supportive of the enlightenment of women. Such men are rare.
It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.
They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment.