States Quotes
When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.
Things that are impossible - are everyday experiences when you live in advanced states of mind. You live in a world of constant miraculous awareness.
The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do.
The December - January period is the strongest time of the year. It is an easy time to shift states of mind.
A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of mind the teaching will take place in non-verbal ways through direct experience.
The United States has an incredible debt. That is obviously not the way to live. You have to eliminate waste in your life as the United States has to eliminate waste in its spending.
There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.
The United States is filled with power places. The majority of them, however, are to be found either along the West Coast and in the southwestern United States or along the Eastern Seaboard.
In the Southwestern United States, the places of power reference the lower three chakras, the chakras of power.
There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.
Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.
There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.
Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.
Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.
What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.
I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.
Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty.
Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.
There was a time when you came forth from infinity, your essence that is. You've always existed, and you'll always exist. But there are different states of mind in the universe.
You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.
We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which makes us happy - what makes us happy are quiet states of mind.
These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.
The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.
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 causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.
To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.
To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.
Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of vibratory and karmic patterns.
All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.
Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.
Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.
The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.
There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.
Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.
Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness
The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.
When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.
An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard to go shopping let alone drive the car.
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.
The enlightened being can look through states of mind, but they are also outside of them.
If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different states of mind. That can only happen for the prepared individual.
An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.
No one can bring you into higher states of attention permanently. I can take an individual and i can change their awareness. That's easy. But how long will it last?
Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.