Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana.

It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.

The causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution.

Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.

If you really have humility when you love, there is only one thought: "What can I do for my beloved?"

You don't always have to be the winner, have everybody notice you. It's fun to dance alone sometimes.

Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.

The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.

The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you.

The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.

Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.

Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.

Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.

If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.

We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

If you are having problems with money, the answer isn't cutting back. The answer is to make more money.

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

Humility can give everything to God. Everything comes from the source, everything returns to the source.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

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