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Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.
In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.
When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.
In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.
The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.
You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.
These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.
I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.
The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.
From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.
I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.
The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"
The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.
In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.
You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air.
There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.
In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument of infinity.
We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.
There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.
The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.
When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop!
None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.
As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.
Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.
Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.
To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.
Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.
The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.
Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.
I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.
I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.
Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.
I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?
All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.
If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.
Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid.
When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.
The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.
In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.
Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.
When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.
If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.
Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.
While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.
If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.