one minute wisdom II

Listing a few more related to enlightenment:

"What did enlightenment bring you?"
"Joy."
"And what is joy?"
"The realization that when everything is lost you have only lost a toy."

An affluent industrialist said to the Master, "What do you do for a profession?"
"Nothing," said the Master.
The industrialist laughed scornfully. "Isn't that laziness?"
"Heavens no. Laziness is mostly the vice of very active people."
Later the Master said to his disciples, "Do nothing and all things will be done through you. Doing nothing really takes a lot of doing. Try it!"

"What must I do for enlightenment?"
"Nothing."
"Why not?"
"Because enlightenment doesn't come from doing? It happens."
"Then can it never be attained?"
"Oh yes it can."
"How?"
"Through non doing."
"And what does one do to attain non doing?"
"What does one do to go to sleep or to wake up?"

It always pleased the Master to hear people recognize their ignorance.
"Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance," he claimed.
When asked for an explanation, he said, "When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today."

The master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.
To a group of disciples who had difficulty understanding that he told the following story:
"There was once a one-legged dragon who said to the centipede,
'How do you manage all those legs?
It is all I can do to manage one.'
'To tell you the truth,' said the centipede,
'I do not manage them at all.'"

The master once told the story of a priceless antique bowl that fetched a fortune at a public auction. It had been used by a tramp who ended his days in poverty, quite unaware of the value of the bowl with which he begged for pennies.
When a disciple asked the Master what the bowl stood for, the master said, "Your Self!"
Asked to elaborate, he said, "All your attention is focused on the penny knowledge you collect from books and teachers. You would do better to pay attention to the bowl in which you hold it."