meditation

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.

Sitting meditation begins with good posture.

Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you.

In order to work with difficult outer circumstances, we need to gather our inner strength. If even ten or twenty minutes of meditation a day helps us to do this, let's go for it!

The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.

You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Right where you are, the potential of the universe is.

We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.