Buddhism Quotes

You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you.

In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.

We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical, we experience them when we stop thought.

With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.

When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.

As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality.

When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world.

Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic intuition will start to come about.

A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.

Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.

The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.

When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.

In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.

The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.

There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.

The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is waiting for you.

Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity.

What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.

Learn to meditate. It's fun. It will give you a strong, wonderful mind.

Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.

The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter.

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.

Don't worry about techniques. Don't worry about chakras. Instead, concern yourself with finding the dharma and meditate. Then the kundalini will release.

It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.

If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.

People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience those worlds when I meditate.

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

To increase the flow of kundalini that will alter our perception, it is necessary to clarify the purpose of one's being. This is to come to understand dharma.

It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini.

The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual.

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.

Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good time with their lives. People are not happy.

This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy.

You can transmit the kundalini physically when people are there, and of course, long distance. It is energy, inter-dimensional energy.

It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.

Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness, of death, and of being happy.

Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.

Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your last shower and be clean.

The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.

Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.

Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.

Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column.

When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as opposed to the levels and layers of conditioning in your mind.

The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power.