You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.
I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.
These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.
Most people are fragile. They’re fragile in the sense that they’re afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown.
There’s no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long.
There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.
The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.
How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city.
Don’t run away from the world. The world is God. Don’t run towards the world. God is the void. Don’t be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death.
You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God’s endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.
Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.
One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you’ve always known has been there. You’ll find there will be no train in sight, with no sense of arrival. There is only a perpetual arrival, a timeless condition of infinite awareness.
A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it’s much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.
Self-discovery is realistic. It’s not built on ideas and philosophies. It’s what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.
If you’re a person who just wants to be in the world and doesn’t want any knowledge, then I don’t know what you are doing with this tape. Turn it off immediately.
Meditation is the journey to happiness.
Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of enlightenment can flow through us.
Meditation is essential because meditation opens the mind to itself.
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.