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So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.
There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it.
To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.
It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.
She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.
When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view.
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.
What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.
Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around.
We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait
The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.
Reincarnation is happening all the time. Every moment we are going through a change. Our being isn't solid. Reincarnation is now.
Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial.
All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.
The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you are aware of.
When we wake up in the morning and we make decisions, these decisions come from the night, the night of eternity, our other side.
Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.
In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.
Light by its very nature is endless. Therefore you can never say you've had the ultimate experience in light - it goes on forever.
You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there's no one to find the Self. There's no Self to find.
All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.
If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.
I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.
You reincarnate forever because you exist forever. You can't die. You can't be born, your essence that is. You are on a big wheel.
You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment.
If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.
Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.
Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.
Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg.
The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.
There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.
We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality.
Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.
People hold an image of you and project that image when they feel you are changing. Disappear for a while. Break up your routines.
Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.
When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.
If you are seeking power and knowledge, you need to go to places that are healthy and happy and radiant. Avoid places that aren't.
There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.
The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl.
The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.
The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.
It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.
Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.
The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of humility.
Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.
As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.