It Philosophy Quotes

When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.

In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.

If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.

The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.

There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the path to liberation.. Everything is liberation.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.

Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization.

Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.

You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.

Tantra is for the person who has gone beyond the rules. They've learned the rules so well that now they can go beyond them.

Since everything is God and everything contains God, you see God in everything, everything is a step towards liberation.

Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.

For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.

If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.

Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

My style philosophy is: Be comfortable.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.

There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

There is nothing that you shouldn't do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation.

My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.

Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.

Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.

Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.

Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.

Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.

In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet.

The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.

It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.

It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.

The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences between party philosophies and prepared the ground for 2016.

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness.

See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.