Buddhism Quotes
Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.
Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.
If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.
The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.
The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else.
If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.
The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.
Don't be offended by your lack of purity. Purity is a seed that will grow and develop.
Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.
Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.
Use your mind to discriminate. Choose to advance yourself, to bring more purity into your being.
Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.
If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.
Avoid the company of the wicked, those who would do injury to you or to others. Like a disease their energy is something you can catch.
As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.
As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.
Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.
The body will blossom and fade, but you will remain after this body of yours has gone away. This knowledge allows you to love the body without attachment. Thus, the body becomes absolutely pure.
Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But you realize that, one day, the flowers will wither and fade.
When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.
Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.
Spend time with spiritual friends, those who seek light. Purity is gained through strength.
Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them.
Seek to advance your fortunes in this world. Set up a strong base so that you can practice your spirituality and be of service to others. This is purity to.
To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity.
Let someone else take your place in line, Let someone else be first. Let someone else achieve realization before you.
Humility can give everything to God. Everything comes from the source, everything returns to the source.
Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.
Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.
Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change.
We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.
"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.
Accept that you are that - you are the matchless, eternal reality. That's true seeing, true humility.
Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push those thoughts aside.
