Enlightenment
- Meditation is the key to enlightenment. To meditate, to make your mind still and supremely aware, to penetrate the void, the essence, the substance, and go beyond both to what is referred to as the clear light of reality -- clear in the sense that it doesn’t have a definite color; light in the sense that it’s not solid, yet it is, pure energy; reality in the sense that it is that which is most real, that which is actual, meaning it doesn’t change. It’s always here.
- Enlightenment is a journey, a journey into light, a journey into self-knowledge, a journey into beauty, reflection, awareness. The infinitude of being calls us to become conscious of itself.
- The experience of enlightenment -- to yoke your consciousness, to join yourself to immortality, to, in this very life, be aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, beyond the boundaries of thought, reflection and self-awareness as seen through the personality.
- Enlightenment is happiness -- happiness in the most profound and yet most simple sense.
- Enlightenment is an experience, a journey -- the journey to light, into cosmic consciousness -- to be completely aware of eternity. To be aware not just of this moment or this world, but of timelessness, of space, of organic life and what lies beyond it.
- Enlightenment is something that is real. It’s a journey through the ten thousand states of mind -- a journey that is not accomplished in a single day or moment. Each time you meditate, you take the journey, you become more conscious, you love more, you feel more, you increase your depth. Each time, you gain a happier sense of what it is to live, you gain a little more control over your life, and when you don’t -- and you don’t allow that to discourage you and cause you to give up -- you become a little more enlightened.
- Once you’re in samadhi, you just let go. You’re absorbed in perfect, radiant light. And as you go into the light, into the planes of light that lie beyond the physical dimensions and the astral dimensions, as you enter what we call the causal dimensions or the planes of light, you will be purified, energized, and you will become wise.
- Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness of the past. And even more immediately, it will expand your consciousness today to places you’ve never been, to experiences that you’ve never had.
- An enlightened teacher is someone who has powers, who has awareness fields and access to them, who can do things that would seem impossible to the average person. They can, I guess you’d say, perform miracles, although the real miracle is that the gold light of enlightenment, the pure light, shines through them. And that isn’t their miracle. That’s the miracle of enlightenment that’s available to all of us.
- Enlightenment is the best of all things, the brightest of all lights. It is union with immortality, timelessness and with the temporal, with all the myriad worlds, planes and things that simply can’t be put into words.
- Enlightenment is not the responsibility of the teacher. It’s your responsibility. You’re the one that wants enlightenment, and you have to do what’s necessary to find it, enter into it. To do that, you have to let go of everything. You have to let go of your ideas about enlightenment, your ideas about teachers and teachings, your ideas about yourself.
- In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field, the total you, from other lives -- to draw on the internal power and intelligence, the knowledge, the wisdom that you’ve amassed in other lifetimes.
- Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.
- You have to be responsible, conscious, and above all, earnest -- not perfect, far from perfect. But you need to have a sincere, earnest interest in becoming one with the light, becoming fully conscious.
- Nirvana is the highest, cleanest, purest and best of all things. It is the clear light, the suchness, the thatness of perfect radiant oneness with all being.
- In meditation, in the world of enlightenment, you have to expend a certain amount of energy -- gain it, conserve it, expend it -- to place yourself into a high state of awareness or to get beyond all gravity, to get into the world of enlightenment, of samadhi.
- The pathway to enlightenment is your life.
- Nirvana is absolute ecstasy, absolute stillness, a presence -- to be in the center of the mind of God, to be completely conscious, forever, of forever, to be in the timeless, misty realm, the nexus of all things. All universes, all intelligences, all cycles of being, come from it. And they go back to it. It sustains them; it holds them here. That’s the world of enlightenment.
- You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clenched in fists, without an agenda. What matters the most is that you have a sincere love of truth. There is something in you that loves light and you are willing to side with that part of your being more than any other side, and you are willing to be patient and go through the training, to go through the enlightenment cycle.
- There is no such thing as spiritual achievement. While enlightenment -- and while people who are enlightened, fully enlightened -- in this world are rare, it’s not an achievement. It’s not a belt ranking. It’s simply an awareness that’s intrinsic to all life that they have managed to gain or become conscious of.
- You lose everyone and everything. But you don’t lose enlightenment or any spiritual knowledge that you’ve gained in this or any other lifetime. It’s inside you. It’s in potential.
- Enlightenment is a journey. It’s a journey that’s made alone. It’s a journey that’s made with a teacher. It’s also a journey that’s made with friends, with other people who are practitioners, who are practitioners of yoga and Buddhism. As you meditate, it’s good to have people around you who are doing the same thing because you help each other not take it not too seriously, and yet you can cause each other to be inspired by each other’s journeys.
- The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn’t have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists, and if you would like to reach it, if you would like to attain it, if you would like to go beyond suffering, pain, frustration and the limited happiness that can be experienced in any form, then you need to journey to enlightenment.
- The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate twice a day; to learn to practice mindfulness; to lead a simple, economical life; to work happily at whatever your tasks are and to use them to help you achieve perfection. And if you’re able to have a teacher, to be with that teacher, try to follow their instructions to the letter, if not more so -- about how to meditate, how to lead a balanced life, how to gain power, wisdom, to have a sense of humor -- the things they show you.
- Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still. If you learn some meditation techniques, you can quiet the mind; you can bring the kundalini up through the seven chakras and enter into various states of enlightened mind.
- Enlightenment exists within everything. There is nothing that can be separate from enlightenment.
- Wisdom in the world of enlightenment is not something that you gain through conversation. A certain amount of instruction can be gained in conversation, but wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still. You can make your mind still when you’re alone, through the practice of meditation.
- Enlightenment is the state of awareness we reach when our consciousness is one with infinity, with the infinite consciousness of life itself.
