Meditation Quotes
With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.
Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.
We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones
Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.
You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.
Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.
Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.
Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.
There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.
There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.
You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.
Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.
How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity.
Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.
Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.
At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.
It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to fixate on a specific level of consciousness.
A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.
Towards the end of your meditation session, or when you feel your meditation is deep, chant "Kring" seven times. Repeat it with sharp intensity, without elongating the syllables.
Lakshmi is a celestial being who lives in a higher plane of existence. Her mantra is "Sring." When you chant it, it brings beauty and light into your consciousness.
As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.
Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, "Aum", which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the mantra perhaps a dozen times, focus on a yantra.
There are thousands of mantras. Everyone has favorites. I prefer three - Aum, Sring, and Kring.
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.
Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.
A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.
Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.
What we are doing is taking an occult energy; it's amplifying in the chakras and the hands. Then we are neutralizing it and spreading it through the being.
Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then from the hands, bounce that energy right back to the heart center and ground it.
One doesn't actually meditate on the navel. The chakra is located about two or three inches below the navel, at that point there is an energy access sphere in the middle of the body.
Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!
Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.
I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.
I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.