Quotes About Meditation

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

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 that we call nirvana.

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.

There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.

You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.

If you meditate you will be able to find new ways to utilize your career and the routines of daily life.

Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.

You must have tremendous power of focus to direct your life and not allow all these variant forces, different vibrations, to enter you.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

If you are finding that you can stop thought longer and longer, I would say your life is bringing power into your being. You are gaining things out from that field behind the house.

Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.

If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.

When your mind is besieged by some inauspicious thoughts, you can bring the sunshine into your life by staying calm!

The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.