Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it’s paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.
Enlightenment doesn’t occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in.
Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.
There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away.
We erase ourselves; we go away. But we don’t really go away, and we don’t really erase ourselves, since we were never there to begin with. We weren’t there to begin with in that what we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.
Enlightenment does not put an end to awareness. It puts an end to limited awareness. It doesn’t necessarily put an end to incarnation. It puts an end to reincarnation.
Enlightenment doesn’t simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn’t mean being a saint.
Enlightenment doesn’t mean you know anything. It doesn’t mean you don’t know anything. It means that you’ve returned to the source, consciously.
Enlightenment means that you’ve become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you’re sophisticated.
Enlightenment simply means that you’ve run out of questions, and that the answers don’t matter anymore.
Enlightenment means that you’re in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.
Enlightenment means that you’re living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all.
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.
Nirvana is very funny. It’s not sincere particularly. It’s rather frivolous, actually.
Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness.
Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.
If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion.
We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.
I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.
A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we’re watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.