Quotes About Nirvana Buddhism

#1. Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

Amit Ray

#2. When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you.

Frederick Lenz

#3. As long as it's a world, it has laws. Why, I don't know, it's just the way it is. In Nirvana, there are no laws.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral realms through the physical and so on.

Frederick Lenz

#5. You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.

Frederick Lenz

#6. The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned.

Frederick Lenz

#7. The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.

Frederick Lenz

#10. There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.

Frederick Lenz

#11. What sets Tibetan Buddhism apart from other Buddhist traditions - such as the Zen Buddhism of Japan or the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka - is that while Tibetans aim to become enlightened, they don't want to enter Nirvana.

Scott Carney

#12. All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Note the similarities with buddhism
a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad
primarily because it does not know the concept
of sad [ ... ]

Tao Lin

#14. Beyond the astral dimensions are the causal dimensions. They are not spatial or time oriented. They are planes of light, and they make up the outer limits of nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#15. We seek to unify ourselves with the endless light of truth, of God, of nirvana. We recognize the infinite playing through all beings and all forms, but we only have to concern ourselves with ourselves.

Frederick Lenz

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

Frederick Lenz

#17. Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

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

Frederick Lenz

#19. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body of experience.

Frederick Lenz

#21. In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#23. There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#25. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

Frederick Lenz

#27. Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#28. The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion - a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.

Frederick Lenz

#29. By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

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

Frederick Lenz

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

Frederick Lenz

#32. Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.

Frederick Lenz

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

Frederick Lenz

#34. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#35. You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.

Frederick Lenz

#36. In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.

Frederick Lenz

#37. All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.

Frederick Lenz

#38. Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.

Frederick Lenz

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

Frederick Lenz

#40. The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#41. It is the rub that polishes the jewel," Enso Roshi says. "Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.

T. Scott McLeod

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

Frederick Lenz

#43. Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.

Frederick Lenz

#44. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#45. 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.

Frederick Lenz

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

Frederick Lenz

#47. Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#48. 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.

Frederick Lenz