meditation

The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Whether one is remaining alert (mindfulness), focusing on a single thought or phrase (mantra), or mentally exploring ones inner world (visualization), all are one form of concentration or another.

You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.

Through Life Particles, the thoughts in your mind are the seeds of your present and future experiences that will blossom when given enough energy through action with your focused attention.

But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up, higher, higher - then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, passing away. I breathed deeply. I tried to breathe space between my thoughts, find the space between the anger.

I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM.

Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world" _ he made a vague circular gesture towards the battalions of meditating Asians behind him _ "were hatching and proclaiming their ideas? Anyone who now tries to follow these ideas in order to find the road back to what they were talking about, is faced with obstacles that would have driven an entire tribe of oriental ascetics into the ravine. The world from which they felt it so necessary to retreat would have seemed idyllic to us. We live in a vision of hell, and we have actually got used to it." He looked at his statues and continued, "We have become different people. We still look the same, but we have nothing in common with them any more. We are differently programmed. Anyone who now wants to become like them must acquire a big dose of madness first; otherwise he will no longer be able to bear the life of our world. We are not designed for their kind of life.

May you comfort and healing.

You aren__ actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the __hought up_ entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.

He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs__nd he was no longer separate from any of it. Because of that, he could do amazing things.

Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn__ mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate.

There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

The good news is that you are never alone. If you are a man, you are always with your inner feminine side. If you are a woman, you are ways with your inner masculine side. However, we are often disconnected from those inner feminine or masculine qualities. Meditation helps to establish that much needed dialog and connection with your inner self. The more we get in touch with our inner self, the more we experience peace, harmony and bliss.

Looking forward_ to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.

He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate from any of it. Because of that, he could do amazing things.

Meditation is mind__ vacation!

During the Meiji era, the Japanese Zen master, Nan-in had a visitor from a respected university _ a professor who wanted to learn about Zen. Nan-in served the professor a pot of tea, but when the cupwas full, he continued pouring until the cup was overflowing. The startled professor watched in amazement until he could no longer restrain himself from intervening, __he cup is full and no more will go in. You__e making a mess!_ __ike this cup,_ Nan-insaid, __ou are full of your own opinions, artificial concepts and negative speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?_ Like the learned professor who wanted to understand spirituality, you too must empty your cup and have an open mind and heart.