Your job is to be free, not to carry around the so-called attainments or failures of the past.
Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.
To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering. But when you are content with who you are now, junior or senior, married or single, rich or poor, then you are free of suffering.
Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you.
Why allow other people to control your inner happiness?
Careful patience is the fastest way!
We all deserve to get away and have some peace; and others deserve the peace of us getting out of their way!
Sir, if someone took a Buddhist holy book and flushed it down my toilet, the first thing I would do is call a plumber!
The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind.
All you need to do is follow the instructions: Sit down, shut up, watch, and don’t get involved. Gradually, the meditation experience will open up all by itself.
I often say that if you see a ghost, face the ghost nose to nose and say “boo.” The ghost will run a mile; it’s more scared of you than you are of it. When.
Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It’s just people being people, the world being the world. Sometimes.
The quieter you become the more happiness you have.
I figured out once that if you decide to have fun when you give a public talk, then you relax. It is psychologically impossible to have fear and fun at the same time. When I am relaxed, ideas flow freely into my mind during my talk, then leave through my mouth with the smoothness of eloquence. Moreover, the audience doesn’t get bored when it is fun.
Disengaging means you leave these things alone and you’re not concerned or worried about them.
Delusion is so incredibly powerful, much more pervasive than most people know. As Voltaire quipped, “The only way to comprehend the mathematical concept of infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
You understand that the defilements promise you so much but that they never actually deliver.
Sometimes in life, even saints have to “hiss” to be kind. But no one needs to bite.