Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in… — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
If you ever leave me baby, Leave some morphine at my door, Cause it would take a whole lot of medication to… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I would like the whole world to be full with authentic art, throbbing with it, living with it, because that is the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Better than merely "seeing" the "sense" of people's actions is "feeling" the sense of what they are doing. Going along with the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“All great myths and stories follow a similar pattern. The hero gets distracted and questions his power. He struggles and flounders until… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Take for instance a man driven to incessant work by a sense of deep insecurity and loneliness; or another one driven by… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that… — James Allen Copy Share Image
It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“An interesting practice that combines mindfulness and refraining is just to notice your physical movements when you feel uncomfortable.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Meditation is really letting go of all the thought processes or 'mind traffic' that gets in the way of just whatever is… — Trudie Styler Copy Share Image
Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are also places of power that reference the fourth and fifth chakras, which are places of balance, and places of power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Overscheduled children lose the space to simply be with themselves and learn the art of being alone. In our noisy, busy world,… — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier. — Moby Copy Share Image
Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
It's hard to keep the energy going sometimes, that's why I like to go with a group of people who are meditating.… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
