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've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed?
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.
It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.
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.
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.
From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.
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.
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
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.
