Quotes About Meditation

Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.

We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular.

I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.

I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long time ago and continue to, want to climb that mountain to the highest light.

Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.

Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness, of death, and of being happy.

Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.

The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it. You want a nice neat little study that's easily understandable.

Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.

There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy, brilliance beyond comprehension.

You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.

Isolation hones the inner voice, the unspoken dialogue between the selves

You were talking to yourself, Udinaas. You shouldn't do that.' 'That's what I keep telling myself.

Has it not occurred to you that clinical examination of oneself is yet another obsession? What you dissect has to be dead first – that's the principle of dissection, after all.

peace would settle on his soul.

In a body with nothing to do, the mind will dance.

There had been no time when he'd felt alone. Alone in the frightened sense, that is. Solitude was born of decision, and could be as easily yielded when its purpose was done.

And why would a monk slit my throat, Stillwater?' She shrugged. 'Who can figure out the mind of a monk?

Brooding's different,' he muttered to the empty chair across from him. 'Could be any subject, for one thing. A subject not at all cynical. Like the meddling of the gods – no, all right, not like that one. Smithing, yes. Horseshoes. Nothing cynical about horseshoes . . . I don't think. Sure. Keeping horses comfortable. So they can gallop into battle and die horribly.' He fell silent. Scowling.

tonsure—and wearing a dark blue

There's nothing like a good cup of tea.

Zen is perhaps best known not so much for the negation of speech, which would represent an extreme view, but for inventing a creative new style of expression that uses language in unusual and ingenious fashions to surpass a reliance on everyday words and letters.

I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.