Buddhism Quotes
All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.
All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.
In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from simply leading a physical life.
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.
As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.
There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.
On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.
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.
If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.
When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy.
Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation.
We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.
Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.
There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.
Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.
It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.
I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.
If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.
There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.
How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.
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.
We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.
These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.
The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.
Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death.
You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.
Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.
If you're a person who just wants to be in the world and doesn't want any knowledge, then I don't know what you are doing with this tape. Turn it off immediately.
Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of enlightenment can flow through us.
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.
You might as well be perfect. There is really not all that much else to do here that is exciting.
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.
When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special.
When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.
Meditation is something that is indigenous to the heart, which makes it hard to talk about. We don't necessarily need to talk about it too much other than to get a sense of the practice.
If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.
If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.
People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience those worlds when I meditate.
Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.
Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.
We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.