Quotes About Meditation

Katsuki Sekida, Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1975; Boston: Shambhala, 2005).

Like boulders rolled away from doors, like meteors, things rumbling in my brain ask me to go out like Moses into some wilderness.

I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way.

Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

The sound of life has divine silence.

And the forest perfume — trees and earth — it's like incense in a shrine. You fall into a state of... prayer.

Vision is profound insight; Meditation is accomplished through experiential understanding of the nature of mind; and the Action that meditation induces is uninhibited outer, inner and mystic action. 12

In nonmeditation we see through the illusion of past, present and future - our experience becomes the continuity of nowness. The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it.

There is only one place to find real peace, real harmony. That place is within

If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!

El silencio es el lienzo en blanco, el marco, sobre lo que trabajas; y no tratas de ahogarlo.

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.

Concentration is uniting the mind with one place, object, or idea for spiritual awakening.

I did ask her last week why she needs to do meditating when her life is so totally unstressful, and she absolutely burst out laughing for some weird reason.

it's all about where your minds at

The body becomes what the foods are, as the spirit becomes what the thoughts are.

Food for thought gives some folks indigestion.

A candle is a prayer in action.

You can travel without moving.

parties without a Jameson are like Zen without the echoing yawn.

Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.

Qigong is a jewel that has many facets.

God/Christ consciousness, and universalism.   We will categorize these as "emergent mystics."   Emergent mystics are teaching: There is a Christ consciousness The Emergent Church can redefine and reshape Christianity in their own image Biblical prophecy is not important Mankind is divine (doctrine of emanations) Occultic mediation renamed "contemplative prayer" People of all faiths can be saved without Jesus Christ

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.