Quotes About Meditation

The Buddha said this clearly: "I teach Reality. . . . That is the inner realm truly taught by the Masters.

This inner gaze is devoid of all tension or strain: how could it belong to an intellect strained with effort?

In the state of cosmic equilibrium There is nothing to abandon or practice, No meditation or post-meditation period.

When little islands of presence cut into our moments of absence, we start to taste the difference in pleasure that presence brings us. When practice mixes with pleasure, we are not far from being definitively lost to the cause of automatism.

As is written in stanza 74 of the Vijnanabhairava Tantra: "Wherever you find satisfaction, the very essence of bliss will be revealed to you if you remain in this place without mental wavering.

What a practitioner of the Tantric path quickly feels, and sometimes the very first day, is that the benefit or reward—the state of joy, space, and freedom—is not subsequent to the practice of awareness. It is, on the contrary, an integral part of it.

You have the openness necessary to live this experience deeply.

Apprenticeship exists; it goes hand in hand with the development of a complete yoga of presence, which it is impossible to attain as long as you get fixed on objectives.

Our dear Lord said we should pray always. Everything we are doing should be either a prayer in itself or can be made into a prayer. Any action that is not in itself wrong can be done in union with God and His divine will.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Breathe in the good shit. Breathe out the bullshit.

Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very seconds. Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

The Buddha's last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.

Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.

Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.

How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!

During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

The arctic loneliness of age.