Quotes About Meditation

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In a way, techniques of meditation can be looked on as measures which are taken by man to try to reach the immeasurable, i.e., a state of mind in which he ceases to sense a separation between himself and the whole of reality. But clearly, there is a contradiction in such a notion, for the immeasurable is, if anything, just that which cannot be brought within the limits determined by man's knowledge and reason.

Zuzuki-roshi] I don't know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.

If you truly believed that Jesus was praying fervently for you right now, how much of your anxiety would flee? Would it melt before the passionate pleas you make to your Lord?

En todas estas habilidades primero tenemos que aprender a «domar» nuestra mente y nuestras emociones. No podremos escuchar si nuestra mente divaga y nos impide concentrarnos. No podremos

He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he can understand Him, he feels Nothing — not nothing, but Nothing , an edgeless blankness that somehow feels worse than the sort of unconsidered atheism he Came In with.

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That's probably as close to immortal as we'll ever get.

He just sits there. I want to be like that. Able to just sit all quiet and pull life toward me, one forehead at a time. His name is supposedly Lyle.

One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.

There's not any real forwardness to it. You don't sense it's straining to get anywhere. The thing it makes you see as she reads is something heavy swinging slowly at the end of a long rope.

The inactive viewer's screen is the color of way out over the Atlantic looking straight down on a cold day.

The happy pleasure of the person alone, yes..?

you are in motion a prince and in repose a sage.

Still, though. Right. Exactly.

We await, I predict, the hero of non-action, the catatonic hero, the one beyond calm, divorced from all stimulus, carried here and there across sets by burly extras whose blood sings with retrograde amines.

they can all stand quiescent in airless venues for extended periods, their eyes' expressions that unique NYC combination of Zen meditation and clinical depression, clearly unhappy but never complaining.

The defecatory posture is an accepting posture, it occurs to him. Head down, elbows on knees, the fingers laced together between the knees.

The medical attache partakes of neither kif nor distilled spirits, and must unwind without chemical aid.

you can't keep the thoughts from popping in there. The thing they try to teach you is just to Let Them Go, the thoughts. Let them come as they will, but do not Entertain them.

What Mark Nechtr fears most: solipsistic solipsism: silence.

CHAPTER I: DISCUSSION AND BED

et tamen nihil est sciens vel quiescens, nisi actualiter sit sciens vel quiescens.

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