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…
“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…
“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. 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. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will…
“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
“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, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.”
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…
When out of gratitude we use our candle to light other people’s candles, the whole room gets brighter. This is why we transfer merit to others. This kind of light is continuous and inexhaustible. – Master Sheng Yen, “Rich Generosity”