Don’t judge your meditations. Don’t rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.
The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.
The only bad meditation is when you don’t meditate.
To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.
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.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.
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.
There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.
To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.
Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts.
Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.
The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.
Pure and simple, balance is happiness.
The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn’t need to be noticed.