The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don’t see it.
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness.
The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.
There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.
After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you.
Enlightenment is not a finite state. It’s not something that you just do and it’s done. It goes on forever.
Buddhists don’t feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it’s the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever.
Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don’t take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.
The world of enlightenment doesn’t know of its own existence. We’re beyond both the knower and known. There’s no conceptual identity whatsoever.
Nirvana’s not like anything you’ve ever known or experienced because it can’t be known or experienced.
Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.
We can’t say what enlightenment is, we can’t say what it isn’t, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality.
Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they’re much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment.
You see, that’s the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can’t be explained, that changes value continuously, and that’s enlightenment.
The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that you think it should be?
The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there’s only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.
Since infinity is by its very nature infinite, then enlightenment by its very nature is infinite, and thus can be experienced in infinite ways, by itself or without itself.
Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven’t checked it out. It’s hot, it’s vivacious. You’re going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos.
Enlightenment is the food that eats you.
Enlightenment means that you’re never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it. And since the quiescent state is perpetual and endless ecstasy, therefore you are endless.