By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.
Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.
If you are not happier every day, if you don’t see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.
My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.
If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You’re doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.
Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don’t have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting their hands dirty. Getting your hands dirty washes your being.
A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.
To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.
You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.
You can’t die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You’re the stuff that life is.
We don’t really remember where we came from, and we’re not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.
You don’t really have a choice. You are alive and you will die.
Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.
At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world.
Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one world into another. You will move from the physical to the causal, from matter into pure energy.
Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.
In the end we just realize there’s no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That’s what’s wonderful about the universe there’s no escape from living. Death doesn’t even end it.
The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly.
When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.
When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.