Mean Quotes

When thought stops, a doorway opens into dimensions that are pure and unassociated. They're nonbinding realities. They're non-samskaric, which simply means that they're beautiful; they're ecstatic.

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.

My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a person couldn't have a glass of wine or a drink.

I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business.

If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's only nirvana for the enlightened.

I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.

Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.

Dissolution means envelopment in Eternity.

Nirvikalpa Samadhi means you are sitting in meditation and you go beyond the planes of light to nirvana. Then you come back and here you are "back in the saddle again".

The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

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.

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

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.

To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.

To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.

Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

Studying with a teacher doesn't simply mean going to an occasional seminar or Zen retreat. It means fully applying yourself to what the teacher says, most of which is not verbal.

Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.

Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal.

Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.

Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you.

The primary place where most people lose energy is in their relationships with others. That means you lose your energy in your interactions with the people you know best.

Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body of experience.

Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.

Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

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.

Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's.

Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.

To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here?

Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.

Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway.

There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?

Stop being jealous, I mean, to be jealous is to suggest that God doesn't know what she is doing. This is ridiculous! She does everything perfectly

Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.

While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.

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.

You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.

Karma doesn't mean that everything works out justly.

Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of these fields of attention.

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.

You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.