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- There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment. It's big; it's…
- Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon…
- You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a…
- In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.
- At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've…
- Everything that exists in this or any other world or dimension, does so because of the way that things were in the previous moment. I…
- We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we…
- Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the highest plane of…
- Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really…
- It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of the universe, perfect…
- Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in various countless forms.…
- There are beings who come into this world, from time to time, not simply with miraculous powers, which we call the siddhas, but with a…
- They just teach by their presence. They don't really have a message for humanity. It's irrelevant at that point. They're just a fluid, perfect embodiment…
- If you can develop a connection, what we call an inner connection with the teacher, then it is not even necessary to be in the…
- To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We…
- It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.
- Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.
- We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a…
- Life is light and consciousness. Beyond this world and other worlds, beyond time and space and dimension, beyond what we call duality, is God
- In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.
- You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of…
- In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind…
- Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation,…
- Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and…
- Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we…
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- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what… — Jane Austen
- Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster
- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
- I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head,… — Lauren Bacall