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Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.
Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.
Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.
If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.
Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.
Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.
Once we erase ourselves, then there's no eraser. There never was anyone to erase. We've awakened from the dream and the dream has faded.
Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.
I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back. We don't listen to Sri Krishna.
What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.
You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.
Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is no primary self anymore.
You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.
The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.
Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve.
The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.
Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.
When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom.
If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.
At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.
I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.
When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.
The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone.
In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.
When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.
In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.
Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.
People who use the mind and aggressive energy to blow their opponent away can be figured out. Anybody you can figure out you can defeat.
What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.
The shushumna is the tube that the kundalini passes up in the subtle body, and on one side is the ida and the other side is the pingala.
There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.
You are no different in this lifetime than you were in your last lifetime. This lifetime is simply a continuation of your last lifetime.
Humility feels that there is someone, somewhere who can do anything I can do better - except one thing: no one can be better at being me.
How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.
I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.
There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.
Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.
How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.
It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.
A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.
Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.
Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.
Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.
A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.
Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!
You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.
Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.
What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.