Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.
To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.
Use your mind to discriminate. Choose to advance yourself, to bring more purity into your being.
Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.
Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous, but then it will root in your consciousness and soon it will be impossible to eradicate.
Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.
Be willing to laugh at your humanness and at your divinity.
Don't be offended by your lack of purity. Purity is a seed that will grow and develop.
We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.
We are everything and we are nothing. We are a forgotten moment. We don't even exist, which is the freeing part. We just think we do. That's the illusion.
There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.
You're a part of me. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of this great nothingness.
The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't exist. When you know this, you will be happy.
Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.
Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.
You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.
When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.
Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it.
There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.
Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.
Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.
Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.
In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.
Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see.
Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up.
