Our Quotes of the Day:
You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
If you feel pain (during the Kriya practice) in the body, then understand that the practice is not going well.
Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?
Breath and mind are correlated. When your mind is restless, your breath is restless. A restless mind causes pain.
If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.
The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding.
The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.
There are so many thoughts in the mind. Thought after thought after thought. But there is one thought that is continuous, though it is mostly sub-conscious: 'I am the body'. This is the string on which all other thoughts are threaded. Once we identify ourselves with the body by thinking this thought, maya follows. It also follows that if we cease to identify with the body, maya will not affect us anymore.
Each minute of life should be a divine quest.
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.
Only human beings can change their evil ways, their ups and downs, pitfalls, shortcomings, anger, pride - all their bad qualities. Then they can experience their own divine nature.
The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.
When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.
To find God, you must welcome everything.
Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile to hear of a fish in water athirst!
Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.
When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it.
The elimination of toxins awakens the capacity for renewal.
Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
It's hard enough to change ourselves. We can't expect other people to change so that we feel better. We have to take the journey ourselves.
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.
