A Quote by Jay Michaelson
The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.
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Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.
Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.
There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One of these realms is the sambhogakaya that can only be visited by highly realized Bodhisattvas. In the pure realm of the sambhogakaya, the Dharma is continuously taught. One sambhogakaya realm is Tushita, which is presided over by the next Buddha, the Maitreya Buddha. Buddha Shakyamuni dwelled there before coming to earth to give Dharma teachings.
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never really taught me how to read, so it was a rude awakening. I was playing catch-up the whole time.
Eventually your boobs grow and you can't run anymore, and that was a really rude awakening.
Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world.
True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.
When I first came to this country I was this new kid from the Caribbean. England was a rude awakening for me.
When we say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," we should also understand that "The Buddha takes refuge in me," because without the second part the first part is not complete. The Buddha needs us for awakening, understanding, and love to be real things and not just concepts. They must be real things that have real effects on life. Whenever I say, "I take refuge in the Buddha," I hear "the Buddha takes refuge in me."
Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
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