Meditation means, no meditator and no object of meditation.
Papaji says : “When you are in meditation you do not need to look after yourself. A power will rise which is moving the earth, which is causing the sun to shine,
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Paradise is right here, right now, in all directions
Tong Songchol says : “They say that paradise is in the west. So the Sixth Patriarch Huineng asked where the people in the west went if people in the east chanted and went to paradise in the west. If you…
Enlightened Mind: “The Process Of Recollection”
“When you desire to remember a thing, you will have to make a psychic exertion. You will have to go up and down into the depths of the different levels of subconsciousness and then pick up the right thing from…
Enlightened Mind: “Memory”
“Smriti or memory is a function of Chitta (subconscious mind). Memory is used in two senses. We say, “Mr. John has got a good memory.” Here it means that Mr. John’s capacity of the mind to store up its past…
Ramana Maharshi says : “Time is only an idea.”
Ramana Maharshi says : “Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and…
Sivananda says : “Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy”
Sivananda says : “Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will…
The way the world works
“What people expect to happen is often different from what actually happens. Thus does disappointment arise. This is the way the world works.” – Sutta Nipata 588
Compassion is the pre-eminent quality in Buddhahood
“The noble quality of love should be thought about thus: “One concerned only with his own welfare, without concern for the welfare of others, cannot achieve success in this world or happiness in the next. How then can one wishing…
Matthieu Ricard says : “Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment”
Matthieu Ricard says : “Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.”
Sheng yen says : “In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination”
Sheng yen says : “In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom. The unity of these two…