From Thich Nhat Hanh: “The truth is already in you. You only need to open yourself — body, mind, and heart — so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment. If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of theContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/09/24”
Tag Archives: Enlightenment
Quote of the day 05/27/24
From Siddhartha Gautama: “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
Quote of the day 05/02/24
From Dogen: “Uchiyama Rōshi used to say again and again that loss is enlightenment, gain is illusion.”
Quote of the day 05/01/24
From Dogen: “Forgetting oneself is opening oneself.”
Quote of the day 04/30/24
From Dogen: “Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
Quote of the day 04/29/24
From Dogen: “As long as there is a hope or expectation of some result to be derived from zazen, then zazen is tainted.”
Born Again: Enlightenment and Understanding
My hypothesis has two parts. 1. Enlightenment is not a destination but a path. It relies on developing understanding, rather than acquiring knowledge, and it manifests itself in moments of realization; that is, sudden instances of understanding or “eureka” moments. This journey has no end point and relies on continues effort throughout life to achieveContinue reading “Born Again: Enlightenment and Understanding”
