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To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.
One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings.
When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.
As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.
The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.
True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.
I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.
In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.
But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.
Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.
When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.
Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.
In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.
For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.
Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.
Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.
You can transmit the kundalini physically when people are there, and of course, long distance. It is energy, inter-dimensional energy.
Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column.
Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.
The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you.
If you are interested in developing some of the higher range occult powers, then I would suggest you not engage in sex too frequently.
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
Your experiences in the causal dimensions will give you knowledge of time, space, dimensionality and what lies beyond all these things.
When your mind is clear and your third eye is open, you can see and know things that are taking place thousands of miles away from you.
A soul mate is not necessarily someone with whom you set up housekeeping. Your soul and their soul have a multi-incarnation attraction.
Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions...worlds within worlds.
To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity.
Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your last shower and be clean.
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
Avoid the company of the wicked, those who would do injury to you or to others. Like a disease their energy is something you can catch.
Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.
The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision.
It is very important that your career raises your awareness. If your career is lowering your personal power, then it has got to change.
Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.
When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you.
I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.
To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.
When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.
Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.