The New Man is the most important things that is happening in the world today.The new man will have to find new forms of communication, working together and sharing, because the old man and the...

I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth – the inner language of silence.Now I also...

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to learn to be extremely honest and also wholehearted about what exists in your...

If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on your calendar so you can be intentional about it. And for an hour...

Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect, what’s the use, of wisdom or knowledge? Understanding. When you understand mind, you’re...

Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others?

Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.

The Divine has created this moment in time. It is a very powerful moment, where there is only one way and that way is that you completely let go. Completely let go of what is...

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God’s...

There is no destination except the one inside of you.

Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

A close examination of the instructions in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta reveals that the meditator is never instructed to interfere actively with what happens in the mind. If a mental hindrance arises, for example, the task...

I could not give up either of these worlds, neither the book I am holding nor the gleaming forest, though I have told you almost nothing of what is said here on these grim pages,...

[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss][Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he did not believe in the Bible but that he had meditated a great deal...

Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent...

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible: we can say yes, or we can say no…. “All...

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’t mine, are at...

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.

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is...

To the degree we give power to anything outside ourselves we become powerless

No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.

By becoming aware of God’s Spirit, by slowing down and paying attention to the tastes and sounds and smells of the food we make and eat, we infuse our meals—and by extension our hearts—with a...

A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

The Light is always there. How much light comes to you depends on you.

Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart…

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

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

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

To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.

Respond; don’t react.Listen; don’t talk.Think; don’t assume.

Presence is the capacity to be present for another person with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being. It is to be present for another person as a supporting light, as...

One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

stay” and settle down. Are we experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What’s for lunch? Stay! I can’t stand this another minute! Stay!”

Yesterday I talked about cultivating precision, gentleness, and openess, and described how the meditation technique helps us to remember the qualities that we already possess.

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

To live without an aim is to wander in a wilderness.

Everything is temporary but the power of Love is Infinite because it is the space, it is Everything.

True oneness is found in quiet meditation with nature.

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

Success comes from finding your center and self.

Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don’t look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

Biking and love do not make sense without your personal experience

Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: “You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don’t find time to practice,...

Because all actions and expressionsstem from the mind, it is vital to know themind as well as decide in what way we’ll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge...

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.