Quotes About Spirituality

On one hand, deeper and deeper meditative states become available. On the other, you are able to maintain those states throughout more and more complex activities of life. We might refer to the first dimension of growth as depth and the second dimension of growth as breadth.

a beginning meditator can sometimes get a taste of the stage that, according to the Visuddhimagga, immediately precedes enlightenment.

your attention is pointed directly toward the richness of the Source.

Gone points to the Source of your own consciousness.

you can actually taste the sources of unhappiness breaking up….The taste of purification can't be put into words, but its acquisition marks the transition to a mature spiritual palate…There is a taste that comes about, when a person experiences pleasure or pain with equanimity. It doesn't matter if…emotions or physical pain exist. Every moment of the future will become marginally less filled with suffering and more fulfilling….

Enlightenment is not a peak from which you descend over time. It is a plateau from which you ascend, further and further as the months, years, and decades pass.

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.

You know, I think the consciousness of the higher self and the eternal self is determined by, how much fear, you have, or allow yourself to have. And that's what I've been working on. The older I get, the more I realize, that what, it's, Love versus Fear, not Love versus Hate. 1march2017 interview, James Corden TV show USA

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

The elderly in China play mah-jong. American senior citizens go on cruises and play golf. Europeans visit museums, tour wineries and dine at Michelin-star restaurants. Indian elders visit temples.

We may cultivate, for example, our reputation as a sincere and virtuous practitioner, instead of simply practicing sincerely and nurturing our virtues

If rebirth exists, that is all right: I will simply try to continue practicing everything good and refrain from everything bad through my next life. If there is no rebirth, I will have nothing to do after my death and I will have no need to consider my practice. This was my view of rebirth for most of my life as a Buddhist.

Bukan kulit luar yang penting, tetapi menjadikan pengalaman kita menjadi sesuatu yang terbaik bagi jiwa kita.

Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

There is no particular way in true practice. You should find your own way, and you should know what kind of practice you have right now.

To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.

So even though you have some difficulty in your practice, even though you have some waves while you are sitting, those waves themselves will help you.

The goal of our life's effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

Our way is not to sit to acquire something; it is to express our true nature. That is our practice.

It will take quite a long time before you find your calm, serene mind in your practice.

We sit to express our true nature

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

We have been taught that there is no gap between nighttime and daytime, no gap between you and I. This means oneness. But we do not emphasize even oneness. If it is one, there is no need to emphasize one. Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (pp. 108-109). Shambhala. Kindle Edition.