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Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong.
Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.
Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.
If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.
Each day try and go through the day with an attitude of being a servant to the world. You'll benefit the most - and the way will be joyous.
The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.
Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.
Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.
The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.
Free will exists within each of us. Most people choose not to use their free will, so consequently they rarely alter their karmic patterns.
Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.
Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.
The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.
Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment.
Karma simply means that whatever type of energy you project, or you allow to pass through your being, you will become for a period of time.
Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"
The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.
You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.
All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.
The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods.
In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.
One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is.
Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.
The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.
The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine.
Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you don't, you tend to lose.
A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.
In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.
Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.
The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple.
You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.
You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.
Just as your physical body is composed of tissue, organs, bones, and different parts, so your subtle physical body has many different parts.
Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.
The unlocking of the kundalini, which occurs by meditating on the first, second and third chakras, is the entrance into the planes of power.
Maybe you don't need to do this. Maybe this isn't your moment. But if you do feel the pull of the eternal, then you can't stay away from it.
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.
They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.
Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.
A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.
Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.
The best things in life are free. Sunsets and sunrises are free. Air is free. Love is free. Death is free. The best things in life are free.
The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.
You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined.
We have developed psychic powers in other lives. Now we have many problems because of it, many voices in the mind due to this crowded earth.
So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.
The kundalini is the life force; it is the essential energy of existence. It is the hidden ingredient in life. It is what makes it all work.
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.