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Enlightenment Shakyamuni Buddha said, Just as water cools both good and bad and washes away all impurity and dust. In the same way you should develop thoughts of love, to friend and foe alike. And having reached perfection in love, you will attain enlightenment. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. They then proceed with strong determination.
- end of quotes from Shakyamuni Buddha. - When you forget the good and the non-good, the worldly life and the religious life, and all other dharmas, and permit no thoughts relating to them to arise, and you abandon body and mind-then there is complete freedom. When the mind is like wood or stone, there is nothing to be discriminated. Pai-chang Huai-hai The birds
have vanished into the sky, Li Po One day I wiped out all the notions from my mind. I gave up all desire. I discarted all the words with which I thought and stayed in quietude. I feelt a little queer - as if were being carried into something, or as if I were touching some power unkown to me - and Ztt! I entered. I lost the boudary of my physical body, I had my skin, of course, but I felt I was standing in the center of the cosmos. I spoke, but my words had lost all their meaning. I saw people walk towards me, but all were the same person. All were myself! I had never known this world. I had believed I was created, but now I must change my opinion: I was never created; I was the cosmos; no individual Mr. Sasaki existed. Master Sokei-an Sasaki (1882-1945) What is reborn are our habits. Enlightenment is the ending of rebirth, which means a complete nonattachement or nonidentifiction with all thoughts, feelings, perceptions, physical sensations, and ideas. His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama You are destined or enlightenment. Cooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don't thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself. Nisargadatta You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! Instanteous and permanent. This is unlikely. After the first "ah ha" experience, it can be thought of as the thinning of a layer of clouds. Ram Dass Enlightenment must come little by little, otherwise it would overwhelm. Idries
Shah There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart. Lao-tzu The Buddha Dharma is not fresh fish - don't worry that it will rot away. It is like peeling an onion. You peel off one layer, and there is another layer. You peel off that layer, and there is yet another layer. Keep on peeling until there is no place left to begin, and then you will achieve unity. An ancient
worthy The more you talk about It, the more you think about it, the further you go. Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Seng-Ts'an Look inward, and in a flash you will conquer the Apparent and the Void. Seng-ts'an |