Buddhism Quotes
It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.
Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.
You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.
Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.
Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.
Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others.
Meditate. Inspire others. Spend time by yourself. Manage your career properly. Work at something constructive, that doesn't injure others, and put your full attention into it.
The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.
You can do anything. You can perform miracles, but it won't fulfill you. What will fulfill you is the stillness of eternity.
There's a power that brings us to things, and there's a power that lets us move away from things, from people, places, experiences. And what you learn to do in metaphysics is accept.
Find a teacher and devote yourself to the study, but in a balanced way, not a fanatical way.
You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic energy because you are not focused.
Throughout the day remind yourself that you are moving through eternity. Be focused. Be centered. Be in the now. Know what is going on in the world. Read a newspaper once in a while.
It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.
It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.
The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded.
Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they're interested in enlightenment.
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.
Power plants break up the way you see the world; they can push you into the second attention; yet to continuously take them, weakens the subtle psychical body.
Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.
You can detach your attention from yourself and go anywhere. You can wander the universe. Big deal!
To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.
The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.
In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.
You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.
It is possible to exert a power over all things, all beings. But we must begin with intent always.
Trust that life is guiding you and showing you every step that is necessary to learn to be perfect. Have faith in yourself. You'll come through OK. Have faith in existence.
You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.
When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. That's nonsense.
Whatever you need will be provided. Eternity takes care of everything perfectly. So never want for that which you do not have; you have exactly what you need.
Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.
Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.
Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you .
Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.
I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light.
Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.
Keep a sense of humor, that keeps you balanced, and you'll do quite well with it all, I'm sure.
All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined
There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes.
Beyond this world are countless dimensions. They stretch on forever. You can travel to them and have experiences in them.
To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our times.
Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.
In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe.
This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.
Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions...worlds within worlds.
There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.