Our Quotes of the Day:
Scrutinizingly observe. If bad or negative thoughts come, return them back to God.
Love is our true essence.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
The mother of all problems and conflicts lies within you, and that is expecting things from others.
When I say, 'Meditate on the Self' I am asking you to be the Self, not think about it. Be aware of what remains when thoughts stop. Be aware of the consciousness that is the origin of all your thoughts. Be that consciousness.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
Aug 13, 1873 - Now, always remain in Kumbhaka. This is the form of Mahadeva, Lord Siva; head was always heavy, the eyes were drawn above; this state does not break when inhaling is done; at that time, silence is very beneficial.
No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.
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.
Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.
The highest form of service is to help a person who is incapable of thanking in return.
Silence gives answers.
Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention
Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.
The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.
It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.
Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.
Meditation is actually not a part of any religion. It is exploring yourself, exploring the deeper aspects of your being, and finally leading you to the center of consciousness within.
Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.
God, or Self, cannot be known through the senses. We are always engrossed in the material world with our five sense organs and we are forgetting Him.
