For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.
Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.
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.
You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.
You cannot be born and you cannot die because you don't even exist ... in the sense that you think of existence.
When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with.
Where do these images comes from and where do they return? What is it that projects these images? How is it that we are the screen? How is it that we have forgotten that we are the Self and that nothing but the Self exists?
I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years. Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light.
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.
If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.
Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentally
It will take about a month for that awareness to be fully absorbed and modify someone's attention field. During that period of time, a person who studies with me will meditate on their own, and apply those things that they have learned to their daily lives.
Take out two pieces of paper. One piece of paper, list all the people you know who are adding to your life.
The subtle physical body protects the body's physical health. It is the radiant life force that is you. When you get sick, it is because there is a problem with your subtle physical body.
Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality.
They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.
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.
You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.
There are seven primary centers, junctions, within the subtle physical body. These are called the seven chakras.
Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.
The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe.
Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.
Real samadhi is off the game board, friends. It is not something you are even aware of.
You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.
The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.
