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Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.
The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.
The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power.
Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.
Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway.
There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.
The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.
When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.
Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.
There are many great bands of perception in the universe. There are both organic and inorganic bands of perception.
It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.
You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation.
If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.
Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.
Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.
As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.
At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly.
I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.
For most people this is not a conscious process, it's an inner pull that takes place, that simply draws them there.
When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.
To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.
I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred.
The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.
What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.
Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.
The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.
There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.
Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.
Dharma is a sanskrit word. It simply means that which is right, that which is correct, that which is the divine law.
Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay thin.
The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.
At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.
You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here?
Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another.
Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you.
Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.
There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.
The sights of infinity can be too strong. They can scorch the soul. It's best to take infinity on a little at a time.
Sometimes we have to be hard on ourselves. We've got to get on our case, if we are being sloppy, lazy, and indulgent.
There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.
Every person who sees you physically evaluates you and projects energy towards you based upon the way you've dressed.
Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.
Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.