Our Quotes of the Day:
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective.
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy Until his mischief turns against him. And a good man may suffer Until his goodness flowers. Do not make light of your failings, Saying, 'What are they to me?' A jug fills drop by drop.
The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.
Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.
People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing, they become more alive, they become a joy to see, a joy to be with; they are a song, they are a dance.
Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred.
By your stumbling, the world is perfected.
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.
Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.
We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.
Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.
In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.
Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.
