Enlightenment Quotations

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.