Our Quotes of the Day:
Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.
Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.
All adversities are here to help you. They can become instruments of your progress.
Do your best and then relax.
Health yoga should not be taught as an exercise form but as a live process; then asanas will lead to ecstatic states.
Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.
The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us
The one Spirit of life is given different names, the sacred names. We more easily recognize the Spirit of life by the particular name to which we are accustomed. So far we are right, but the mistake we make, and it is to our loss, is to ignore or deny the same truth because it is given to us in another form and under another name. We limit it. We say the truth existed only in that period when certain teachers came to the world, and that after that it stopped.
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.
I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!
It is your mind that creates the world.
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where we wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter.
You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.
A spiritual person is vast, like an ocean - but very mighty, very powerful.
God speaks in the silence of the heart
The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.
