The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control. We use energy to aid others, to see beauty, to discover love where we saw no love at all.
The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.
The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against emptiness.
Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.
You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.
There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.
In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.
There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind.
The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.
Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.
The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.
Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is – what in Zen we call “suchness”.
The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.
Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.
Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it’s the perception of life directly.
Everyone is psychic. People just don’t know that. They think so much. They worry so much. They’re so caught up in unhappy emotions. They’re not still enough.
The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl.
Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there’s no thought, we see the other shore.
A person who has power has an open mind. Their mind is open and they can see on other levels. Seeing is a quality that comes to a person who has personal power.
If you are psychic you will become much more aware of the beauty of life. If you are psychic, when you look at a rose, you will see and feel the essence of the rose.