The true hallmark of how advanced a person is, is how they treat those around them. Not simply what they say or what they preach, but the results they generate, how kind they are.
Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.
Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there – there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self – that you don’t see.
Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.
Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you’ll be free. It’s the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten – and that is to have fun through giving.
Each day try and go through the day with an attitude of being a servant to the world. You’ll benefit the most – and the way will be joyous.
Eternity, I don’t know what’s right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what’s right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I’m going to do is give my life to you.
When this life ends, I will be absorbed back into you. I have come forth from you. You are all good and you know all that there is. So please act in me and through me at every moment and every second. Let me be but an extension of your being. Teach me how to live and love selflessly, at all times.
Buddhism is the process of getting to that part of us that is always eternally happy.
The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we’re in, how we modify the realm we’re in.
Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns.
At this point, you are so far away from what you really are, it is ridiculous. The good news is that every step you take within brings you more in touch with that which you really are.
Thinking that the next person, the next relationship, the next experience will free you – these are foolish thoughts of people who are bound again and again to birth, death and rebrith for thousands and thousands of incarnations.
Buddhism suggests that you have that choice; you are in the driver’s seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have an absolute choice about what you experience in your mind.
Believe in yourself, step one. Believe in the order, step two. Believe in the teachings, step three.
The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly.
To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn’t really matter.
The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion.
If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work – it is not spiritual practice as I know it.
In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.