Robert Gant Quotes

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and I have just been born today.

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

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.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?