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Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.
You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.
I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.
The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods.
The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.
The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.
The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the being.
The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.
Sex is a highly personal matter, yet it seems to get more impersonal all the time. How do I feel about sex? I suppose it matters with whom.
Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.
What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.
Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.
Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.
Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.
Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.
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.
You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.
Terrorism is perpetrated by individuals and cannot be blamed on any one religion, be it Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.
Maybe you don't need to do this. Maybe this isn't your moment. But if you do feel the pull of the eternal, then you can't stay away from it.
Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.
So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.
Just as your physical body is composed of tissue, organs, bones, and different parts, so your subtle physical body has many different parts.
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.
The kundalini is the life force; it is the essential energy of existence. It is the hidden ingredient in life. It is what makes it all work.
The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.
Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.
You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined.
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.
Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.
In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.
Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.
Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something else.
The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.
Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.
In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.
There is no end to the petals of the inner rose. Continue to unfold set after set of petals until you have completed your meditation session.
Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.
We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.
There are many other chakras, or nadis as they are also called. There are chakras in the hands, fingertips, feet and a number of other areas.
You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.
It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]
There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.
The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.
It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.
The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana.
The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice.