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Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (39)
i) Wisdom (prajna) is the Bodhisattva’s pure land, for when he attains Buddhahood, living beings who have realized samadhi will be reborn there.
Dhammapada
Chapter II: On Earnestness (23)
These wise people, meditative, steady, always possessed of strong powers, attain to Nirvâna, the highest happiness.
Life of Pythagoras
FROM POLUS, IN HIS TREATISE ON JUSTICE. (6)
And it is requisite, that it should not first investigate the principles of itself, but the common principles of all beings. For wisdom so subsists wi...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Instructions on the Symptoms of Death, or the First Stage of the Chikhai Bardo: The Primary Clear Light Seen at the Moment of Death (1.30)
Thine own consciousness, not formed into anything, in reality void, and the intellect, shining and blissful, — these two, — are inseparable. The...
Mundaka Upanishad
Third Mundaka, Second Khanda (1)
He (the knower of the Self) knows that highest home of Brahman, in which all is contained and shines brightly. The wise who, without desiring...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Fourteenth Day (18.14)
O nobly-born, if one recognize not one's own thought-forms, however learned one may be in the Scriptures — both Sutras and Tantras — although...
Mundaka Upanishad
Second Mundaka, Second Khanda (7)
He who understands all and who knows all, he to whom all this glory in the world belongs, the Self, is placed in the ether, in the heavenly city of...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka IV, Khanda 5 (3)
'He who knows this and meditates on the foot of Brahman, consisting of four quarters, by the name of Prakâsavat, becomes endowed with splendour in...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What True Philosophy Is, and Whence So Called. (2)
This wisdom, then - rectitude of soul and of reason, and purity of life -is the object of the desire of philosophy, which is kindly and lovingly...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Conclusion (33)
Following the path pointed out by the wise, the seeker after truth ultimately attains to the summit of wisdom's mount, and gazing down, beholds the...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Dawning of the Lights of the Six Lokas (27.5)
Wherever the ether pervadeth, consciousness pervadeth; wherever consciousness pervadeth, the Dharma-Kaya pervadeth. Abide tranquilly in the uncreated...
Bhagavad Gita
Kṣhetra Kṣhetrajña Vibhāga Yoga (13.35)
They who perceive with the eye of wisdom this distinction between the Field and the Knower of the Field, and also the deliverance from Prakriti, the...
Bhagavad Gita
Kṣhetra Kṣhetrajña Vibhāga Yoga (13.13)
I will now describe that which ought to be known, through the knowing of which one attains Immortality. It is the Supreme Brahman, which is without...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Supernormal Birth by Transference to a Paradise Realm (39.1)
In the first-the transference to a pure paradise-the projection is directed [by thinking or meditating] thus: 'Alas! how sorrowful it is that I,...
Dhammapada
Chapter V: The Fool (75)
'One is the road that leads to wealth, another the road that leads to Nirvâna;' if the Bhikshu, the disciple of Buddha, has learnt this, he will not...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 23 (2)
Austerity the second, and to dwell as a Brahmakârin in the house of a tutor, always mortifying the body in the house of a tutor, is the third. All...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul. (20)
For the Matter or Body of it is Power, and it grows in the heavenly yLimbus; its Root stands in the Matrix, wherein there is neither Earth nor Stone; ...
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (58-59)
As on a heap of rubbish cast upon the highway the lily will grow full of sweet perfume and delight, thus the disciple of the truly enlightened Buddha...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Instructions on the Symptoms of Death, or the First Stage of the Chikhai Bardo: The Primary Clear Light Seen at the Moment of Death (1.29)
Thine own intellect, which is now voidness, yet not to be regarded as of the voidness of nothingness, but as being the intellect itself,...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter I: Plan. (4)
Our knowledge, and our spiritual garden, is the Saviour Himself; into whom we are planted, being transferred and transplanted, from our old life,...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Sixth Day (9.22)
And believing in the unchanging nature of the pure and holy Truth, thou wilt have had produced in thee the tranquil-flowing Samddhi; and, having merge...
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