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Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.
If you decide that you are a winner, and if you hold that image in your mind strongly enough, you will become a winner.
At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.
At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just be dead.
We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.
To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.
When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is.
As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.
What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid.
Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.
I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.
All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.
Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.
Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.
Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. In order to enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, you must have a great deal of humility.
Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.
Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.
Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.
When you meditate your body shouldn't move. Some people get into this kundalini sway business. Your body shouldn't move.
Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.
There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.
A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.
Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.
God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.
You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.
A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.
As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality.
Since everything is God and everything contains God, you see God in everything, everything is a step towards liberation.
Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.
Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.
Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness.
All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.
Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.
Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.
You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.
I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."
A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.
At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.
There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.
We may have a tiny little room that we rent, and if we keep it clean and it's impeccable, then we gain a power from that.
There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.
Beyond this world are countless dimensions. They stretch on forever. You can travel to them and have experiences in them.
When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it.
You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.
Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.
Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware.