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If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.
Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.
Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.
I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.
At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly.
If you can't make freinds with God, make freinds with someone is friends and maybe you'll get invited to the party.
For most people this is not a conscious process, it's an inner pull that takes place, that simply draws them there.
I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred.
The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.
Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.
It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.
You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here?
Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay thin.
We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.
There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others.
As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.
The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.
There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.
Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.
The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.
There is nothing and no one else but your dear friend, eternity, who has always loved you, who will always love you.
Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.
We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.
In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.
The only way you can really evaluate spiritual advancement is to see how someone treats those who are close to them.
Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware.
In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.
The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.
Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.
At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another.
Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.
As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.
The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.
The psychic world is a dimensional plane that you can gain access to. It is a dimension of feeling and clear seeing.
Dharma is a sanskrit word. It simply means that which is right, that which is correct, that which is the divine law.
No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things.
Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you.
Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.
There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.
If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.
One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.
Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.
Every person who sees you physically evaluates you and projects energy towards you based upon the way you've dressed.
People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves.
Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.
The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.