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People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.
The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.
From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.
The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.
To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.
The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.
If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.
God does everything perfectly. The world doesn't really need saving; it's exactly the way God wants it to be at the moment.
Life is not a malfunction. It's beautiful. But if you do not see it that way, it's simply because your room needs cleaning.
In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.
The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.
Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything
When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.
If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.
Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change.
It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends.
To become wise, meditate on the third eye, between the eyebrows and a little bit above. Focus on that spot, the Agni chakra.
In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.
The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.
Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.
If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it, it's not there.
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.
Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.
We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.
Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.
From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.
Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.
Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.
We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.
Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.
In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves up to create light.
You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.
You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.
You can do anything. You can perform miracles, but it won't fulfill you. What will fulfill you is the stillness of eternity.
Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.
Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.
Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.
The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.
Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.
The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness.
In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy.
When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.
How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.
In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.
Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.
Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.