On The Way Quotes
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.
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.
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.
Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.
If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.
Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.
With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.
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.
The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually.
Kundalini can be transmitted. A person who is very adept at the enlightenment process can transmit it. Whether you feel it or not, it's affecting you in a very positive way.
There is a way to open up the chakras, there is a mystical way. But if you do that, you'll get yourself into very hot water, and it's ultimately slower.
Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.
An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.
The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.
You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.
The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.
Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.
People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way
There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances
Everything that exists in this or any other world or dimension, does so because of the way that things were in the previous moment. I call this the karma of moment.
Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.
The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.
The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.
By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.
When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.
There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.
Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment.
The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that you think it should be?
Since infinity is by its very nature infinite, then enlightenment by its very nature is infinite, and thus can be experienced in infinite ways, by itself or without itself
A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn from them and go out and live it. You have to change your life.
Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.
If one has an enlighened teacher and you come to this person with love, they will show you the ways of love.
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.
Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.
I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.
I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns them off, so I don't know. I mean you never can tell which way it will go.
It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.
I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.
Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA.
Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.
A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.
Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!
Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.
Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.