What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they've gone back and forth.
Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong.
Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment.
A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond the wheel, and slide into nirvana.
Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself. " They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.
The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.
We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.
The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now.
To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms.
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.
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging cannot be limited: even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.
When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment.