meditation

We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible

It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world _ it is within. Go there, within.

Only inner-mastery can bring outer-mastery.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

Can one n/ever not think?...Meditation the Art of Non-Thinking

Each new day begins with a meditation, and ends with a purifying catharsis.

Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening.

Every day, whatever you do, you trade a day of your life for it.

Notice how each particle moves.Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey.Notice how each wants a different food.Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all streams stream toward the ocean.Look at the chefs preparing special plates for everyone, according to what they need.Look at this cup that can hold the ocean.Look at those who see the face.Look through Shams_ eyes into the Water that is entirely jewels.

After a time, he felt a deeper rhythm, the rhythm of the stone and water, not the rhythm of his words and heartbeat. He breathed into this deeper rhythm, let it teach him a new mantra, a wordless mantra that waxed and waned, ebbed and flowed, moon and stars and clouds, river and sun, the wordless singing of the earth beneath it all like the world's own heartbeat. He laid his palms flat on the stone beneath him and listened in quiet rapture to the mantra of the world's praying.

Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.