Buddhism Quotes - Page 21

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.

To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.

In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.

It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.

Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.

A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.

In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

It's important to remember that there are countless views in infinity.

Each of is endlessly generating waves with our actions. If you could see the earth from a vibratory point of view, you would see something like radio waves billions of them, cascading constantly into very complex patterns all over the earth.

Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically, then you can change your destiny.

If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.

Spiritual balance is the principle that allows the mind to be still. You cannot expect the world to settle down, everything to work out, in order for you to be happy. You have to get control of your mind.

Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.