Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
People get embarrassed about admitting they feel low but you can't help the way you feel. Which is why exercise, taking vitamins… — Shirley Ballas Copy Share Image
The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Aboard a boat of leaves I float, allowing new stories to unfold. Of cresting and falling winds, streaking words across the sky.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest. Hold your right or left hand out. Now say "Me" and,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Duality—dark and light, good and evil, high and low—defines more than just the external world. It is the essence of the body,… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
When depression or suicidal thoughts weigh heavily, the hardest thing to do is to fight. My battle weapons are the Word of… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Meditation, then, is not so much a part of this or that particular religion, but rather part of the universal spiritual culture… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“The practice of mindfulness is one of the most powerful reset buttons we have. When we learn how to slow down internally,… — Maia Duerr Copy Share Image
Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Ah, yes, choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat.… — Natalie Wright Copy Share Image
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Whispering wind, a quiet breath exhaled across years of tiny, fragments of light. Glowing in the breeze, like silent fireworks, accentuating my… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
“Whether your awareness is focused on your own emotions and perceptions or directed toward the preferences, needs, and feelings of others, being… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The only place healing can occur, wisdom can be realized, compassion can be extended, and peace can be experienced, is the present… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Kundalini is your Mother. She has been with you for ages and She has been waiting for this day when you could… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Meditation is not to be on the surface of a thing or underneath it or above it, but it is to be… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else,… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“A blanket can be a meditation device. If the blanket is white, and you stare at it, you can blank out your… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
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