Since the early 1920s a unique spiritual path has existed in Japan. This distinctly Japanese version of yoga is called Shin-shin-toitsu-do, and it combines seated meditation, moving meditation, breathing exercises, and other disciplines to help...

Retaining our capacity for reasonis common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of...

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

The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her like pictures, which she cared not in her laziness to have fully explained...

You see, meditation is not a fabricated state. It is natural. It is accessible to all. And in the same way that a person who learns how to run, can run any time they want...

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

if the ocean can calm itself, so can you.we are both salt water mixed with air.

Meditation quiets conscious thought and the physical realm, making a doorway to spiritual awareness.

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and emotion;it is the ‘Living Infinite…

I was there!”-surely that is the answer to God’s question. For no matter how the universe came into being, most of the atoms in these fleeting assemblies that we think of as our bodies have...

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a...

Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer’s own form.

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition. I am just interested in exploring what it means to live with open eyes. People in spiritual organizations also tend to get caught in ideas...

I was 9 years old when I had my first glimpse of wholeness. It was early Christmas morning and I was standing in my pajamas in the living room and looked out of the large...

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.

Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.

It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for...

I meditateSo that I can inundateMy entire beingWith the omnipotent power of peace.

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration

Do not bank on mere mortals. Trust the One who will never fail you

The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.

Lizzie said that if you imagined you were standing on the moon, looking down on the earth, you wouldn’t be able to see the itty-bitty people racing around worrying you wouldn’t see the barn falling...

you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true

Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the Divine inner energies and tasting the...

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go,...

Tightness takes more energy than the letting go.

The undiscovered is not far away. It’s not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has...

Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a...

Come back” and bring it back again. With a lot of training, you can teach your mind to come running back to you when you call, just like a friendly pup.

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly....

As consciousness expands, so does perception of self.

Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind.

Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.

We can feel the vibration that comes from the candle flame, burning it way into our innermind, no blurry images, clear as crystal, we enter into the highest consciousness, on our journey back home, we...

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.

The whole present moment was a celebration; it always had been; all I needed was fresh eyes to see it.

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Everything you ever needed to know is waiting in the space between your thoughts.

Have a namasté day today. Look into the eyes of everyone you meet and silently honor his or her soul. Say silently, ‘I honor the light within you, which is the same as the light...

Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience.