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Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires...
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.
The obvious answer to money is to have tons of it - simply figure out how to make more money than you really need and go for it.
Buddhism allows me to feel well, tranquil, and very happy inside. This is good not only for football but for my life in general.
A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.
"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it.
When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.
Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.
When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.
There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it.
The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.
It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.
In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe.
When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view.
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.
What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.
Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.
The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.
In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.
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.
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.
If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.
You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment.
Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.
If you are seeking power and knowledge, you need to go to places that are healthy and happy and radiant. Avoid places that aren't.
There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.
Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.
The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.
As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.
The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"
You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.
The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.
There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.
In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.
In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument of infinity.
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.
From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.
Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.
The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of humility.
Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.
If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.