Buddhism Quotes
You exist forever. You've always existed and you'll always exist. You move in and out of bodies like some people in Los Angeles move in and out of houses, every other week, every other lifetime.
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.
There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.
As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.
Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.
In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.
We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.
Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.
In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.
It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.
All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view.
There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.
There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.
Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.
In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.
Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.
Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.
Beyond this world, beyond other worlds, be they inter-dimensional worlds or physical worlds, there is something else, which is the vast unknown eternity.
The higher octave light that comes from samadhi, the kundalini of samadhi, this you can absorb continuously. You can never overload. It can never hurt you.
The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.
Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is nirvana.
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.
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.
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.