Suffering Quotes - Page 162

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.

The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.

Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.

Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.

Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing exist there.

Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.

Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.

Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.

You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.

Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience it's not even discussable.

There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter.

Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so.

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.