In The World Quotes
The world is wonderful. It is beautiful when you are in a correct level of attention.
If you go to a lower crossover point, a negative place of power, then the beings there are very unevolved, very demonic, crazy, lower than the people of this world.
The world is always chaos, but we pretend that it's not because it makes us feel better. In doing so we're able to go through it in a specific manner and form: That's the tonal.
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.
You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.
If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.
The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.
The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.
When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.
Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.
Until your physical togetherness increases, your development in the inner worlds will not increase.
As long as you continue to run away from the world, I will not be able to show you your luminosity.
When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that.
We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.
The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you.
Your tonal will enable you to deal with the world well, to do well in a career and interact with others.
Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.
There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.
The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.
Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.
The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.
The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.
You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again.
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.
There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.
In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.
Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.
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.
There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.
Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into the world unless we bring order into ourselves.
Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.
When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I.
When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.
The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.
Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.
We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.
People who drain others have a certain world they want to get to when they die, and you're their ticket!
If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus really know which of the twelve would betray him? I doubt it.
Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still.
When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.
It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world.
Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.
This world only brings things apart that come together, and brings things together that weren't together.
Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.
You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.
Throughout the day remind yourself that you are moving through eternity. Be focused. Be centered. Be in the now. Know what is going on in the world. Read a newspaper once in a while.
Power plants break up the way you see the world; they can push you into the second attention; yet to continuously take them, weakens the subtle psychical body.