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“A human's present was important because there was nothing after death"

-Kim Dokja”
― Singshong

“All phenomena of samsara and nirvana are your own mind.”
― Padmasambhava, Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples

“Everyone here is Absolute Reality, Pure Awareness.
This is your real nature.
Right now, not some time in the future.
Not when you get enlightened.
Not when you search for the answers.
But right this minute. This is what you are.
Why will you not accept it?
When you think about yourself, do you think
you're a puny human
that has to struggle for existence and fight for survival?
As long as you believe this, that's the way it's going
to be for you.
But as soon as you accept the truth about yourself,
that you are a delight, Divine Sat-Chit-Ananda,
You will be free.
You simply have to accept this.
There are no rituals you have to go through.
There are no prayers you have to chant.
You simply have to awaken to your true nature,
Pure Awareness,
Nirvana,
Bliss,
Consciousness.
This is what you are right at this moment.”
― Robert Adams, Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams

“When you inquire in yourself, all you desire is desirelessness.”
― Jean Klein, Beyond Knowledge

“When realization occurs you should definitely be free from samsara, so that your disturbing emotions naturally subside and become original wakefulness. What is the use of a realization that fails to reduce your disturbing emotions?”
― Padmasambhava, Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples

“I just want to sleep the sleep of ages, to know again the Great Rest, the perpetual bliss, to hear the songs the stars sing on the shores of the great sea.”
― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

“Q: What is nirvana and do many people attain it?

Lama: When you develop your powers of concentration such that you can integrate your mind into single-pointed concentration, you will gradually diminish your ego’s emotional reactions until they disappear altogether. At that point, you transcend your ego and discover an everlasting, blissful, peaceful state of mind. That is what we call nirvana. Many people have attained this state and many more are well on their way to it.”
― Thubten Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist

“Mindfulness�� is the purest mindlessness. It is the great and perverse desire to annihilate consciousness and exist in an eternal now of unthinking perception of nothing at all. It is the most nihilistic vision there has ever been. It is “nirvana�� �� absolute nothingness, the state of infinite anti-consciousness.”
― Jack Tanner, Zarathustra's Out-of-Body Experience: How Humans Become Angels

“If it's easy to get into something but nearly impossible to get out, it's called a trap. But traps of Maya are not that obvious. It's difficult to get into them. Hence they are more attractive to us. In fact, we compete with each other to get into them.”
― Shunya

“The term fraud alludes to a saying of the Buddha which the Mahayanists were fond of quoting: "All conditioned things are worthless, unsubstantial, fraudulent, deceptive and unreliable, but only fools are deceived by them. Nirvana alone, the highest reality, is free from deception." Two classes of facts are here distinguished-the deceptive multiple things on one side, and the true reality of the Absolute on the other.”
― Edward Conze, Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra

“Nirvana isn’t merchandise for sale. Any religion can sell a paradise, a pure land, or nirvāṇa. But is nirvāṇa a product that the Buddha and ancestral teachers want to sell us? Is it a promised land or paradise up in the sky, which people try to sell us saying: “If you follow our religion, if you become a member of our congregation, then after you die you will have nirvāṇa or the Kingdom of Heaven��? We can see clearly that it is not.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Enjoying the Ultimate: Commentary on the Nirvana Chapter of the Chinese Dharmapada

“Nothing is Everything (The Sonnet)

Your accent doesn't matter,
Your language doesn't matter.
Your scripture doesn't matter,
Your nationality doesn't matter.
Beyond the prisons of all divisions,
There is a valley of total nothingness.
In that nothingness you shall find light,
In nothingness lies absolute wholeness.
So long as you are exclusively something,
You can never be everywhere and everything.
Once you are everywhere and everything,
You have no need for the backward things.
For once in our life, let's be whole in nothing.
Once we taste nothingness, there is no turning.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“I loved him.'

'You didn't know him.'

'Of course I knew him. I listened to him sing every single day. The things he sings about, that's him. I know him better than I know you. He understood me.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

“Samsara and nirvana are perhaps best understood as points of view. Samsara is a point of view based primarily on defining and identifying with experiences as either painful or unpleasant. Nirvana is a fundamentally objective state of mind: an acceptance of experience without judgements, which opens us to the potential for seeing solutions that may not be directly connected to our survival as individuals, but rather to the survival of all sentient beings.”
― Yongey Mingyur Rimpoche

“Recognizing the dissatisfactory nature of our existence and renouncing the world in which transitory sense objects contact transitory sense organs to produce transitory feelings, none of which are worth grasping at, we seek instead the everlasting, eternally joyful realizations of enlightenment or nirvana.”
― Thubten Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist

“The great bliss state is the state of reality �� where we actually are, right here and now. It is not some elaborate place far away from where we are. The wonderful thing about the Buddha‘s revelation, the Buddha‘s insight, is that this reality itself is the great bliss state, that which he first called „Nirvana��, the extinction of all suffering, which he came to describe as „bliss void indivisible.�� The extinction of suffering and the achievement of perfect happiness and the reality of perfect happiness is the reality of our world. This was the Buddha‘s good news. This is what he realized under the bodhi tree, where he first became enlightened. The bodhi tree was the original wish-granting gem tree. To find happiness or peace or enlightenment, we do not have to create some artificial world, a world apart from this world. We have to understand the nature of this world. And the nature of this world, when we do understand it, is revealed to us through our understanding, not from some other person just showing us something. Our own understanding reveals the nature of the world to us as the great bliss state of emptiness and openness. The nature of this world is superbliss, intertwined and indivisible.”
― Robert A.F. Thurman, The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism

“ONE SHOULD WAKE UP WHEN THERE'S DAWN IN THE SOUL

उठना तब चाहि��
जब मन मे�� सवेर�� हो

UTHNA TAB CHAHIYE JAB MANN ME.N SAVERA HO”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“I CONFRONTED MY DEMONS AND ONE DAY I STOOD IN FRONT OF MYSELF.

I confronted (each of) my demons and (finally one day) I was standing in front of myself.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Yoga ist der Weg der Reinigung. Er beginnt mit dem Körper und führt zum Geist. Wenn der Geist rein ist wie ein Kristall, dann durchstrahlt ihn das innere Licht, das ist Samadhi. Buddha nannte diesen Zustand Nirvana. Im Zen heißt er Satori oder Kensho. Jesus nennt ihn Himmelreich. (S. 76)”
― Ralph Skuban, Die Bhagavad Gita

“The journey into the vast unquiet universe, watched by faces in railway compartments, tolerant and incurious. In the nights Ravi curled up on luggage racks and slept to the soft beat of the rails. The names of railway stations changed, their scripts changed. Then on the road, up the high ranges, past hairpin bends in gasoline-perfumed buses. The roadway dust changed colour, sunrise and sunset changed places, directions were lost in an assailing infinity. The journey took him through cheerless suburbs, through streets of sordid trades, past cacti villages and lost townships of lepers, and ashramas where, in saffron beds, voluptuous swaminis lay in wait for nirvana.”
― O V Vijayan

“Seeker doesn't find the truth; The truth finds the seeker. A seeker tries to push the door of truth. He beats it, kicks it but it doesn't open. He tries to pull it but there is no handle to pull. Then he waits and waits. Finally the truth opens the door from the other side. Finally the seeker meets his true self which lives on the 'other side'.”
― Shunya

“Peace comes from your heart first and then it spreads to the rest of your body.”
― Major Mike Russell

“People often think, "The day I become free from everything, I will take the spiritual path." That day never comes in their life. First take the spiritual path. Then and only then you will become free from everything one by one.”
― Shunya

“When love stays, when it is real, when the person is right, you feel secured; the darkness disappears and the light emerges, you reach to the stage of nirvana, the awakening happens.

- From (The Awakening)”
― Jyoti Patel

“Anyone may now and then have the sense of occupying only a point and a moment; to have such a sense day and night, hour by hour, is less frequent, and it is from this experience, this datum, that one turns toward nirvana or sarcasm--or toward both at once.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“A mí no me va eso del nirvana o los jardines con minas tocando la flauta. A los dos días ya te querés cortar las pelotas. Al Cielo le pondría canchitas y un par de bares, porque en el bar estás en tu casa y a la vez estás balconeando la calle.”
― Roberto Fontanarrosa

“People have lost faith in God and the Kingdom of God because they have put God in the wrong place. If they put God in the right place, in their own heart, the spiritual crisis will come to an end. This is a spiritual and a cultural matter. In the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions there are people who have discovered that God does not belong to the future or to another place.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Enjoying the Ultimate: Commentary on the Nirvana Chapter of the Chinese Dharmapada

“Only love reveals love, only oneness reveals oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“Esperanza Impossible Sonnet 39

I need a religion,
With less pomposity and more simplicity.
I need a religion,
With less noise and more tranquility.
I need a religion,
With less pollution and more sustainability.
I need a religion,
With less malnutrition and more magnanimity.
I need a religion,
With less citadels and more sidewalk.
I need a religion,
With less barking and more footwork.
Yet when I look around I get choked with all the pollution.
Perhaps the religion I seek doesn't exist, for I am my religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Goodness is universal, vessels may vary. Some call it water, some agua, some pani.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz