meditation

God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity.

The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.

When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God

At the last stages of the journey, there__ no journey at all.

forgiveness happens when you know that the other is not responsible.

How do I recognize a real saint? Whom I shall see within me whether it is in dreams or trances or meditations, He will be the Saint to me. Because God is the only Saint in this world. He is within our bodies. When He will manifest within my body in the form of a person, he will be saint to me.

My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an actor is really a spiritual profession, since it means to create life on the stage. It means to play a role totally, while at the same time you know deep down inside yourself that you are not the role that you are playing. Working as an actor gave me early a spiritual discipline, which taught me a lot about awareness and meditation. Life is also about learning to play different roles, and learning to change between different roles with the same easiness that you change shirt.

The art of tea, whichever way you drink it, or whichever country you are from, has one underlining thread for all of us. It is the cultivation of yourself as you follow the ceremony of preparing your tea, the way in which you make your tea, how and where you drink it, and with whom. Making a cup of tea creates a space for just being.

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.

Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.

Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you__e the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you__e not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

. . . if you close your eyes and begin to feel your breath, it will instantly become deeper and slower, and your mind will become calmer. Then gradually you'll become aware of your body, or more precisely the subtle sense of energy inside and around your body. At that moment, you exist as Energy-Consciousness, not as names, jobs, duties, roles, desires, and so on.

Love is the highest form of meditation.

Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.

Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren__ mine, are at least different from the norm.

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.