In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.
There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.
You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it's overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed - you no longer exist.
It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.
Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.
Our very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself.
We go outside, on a clear, cold night. We see millions of stars all over the place, bright and beautiful, each one shining forever. Each moment is forever, it's shining in each moment forever.
There are many universes, countless universes, and many of them are invisible. We call these the astral planes, but they are as real as this world is and they're filled with beings that have life spans.
Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.
Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.
There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.
Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.
Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.
Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.
The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.
It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.
Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with such volatility and force that we simply perceive life correctly.
Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.
Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.
Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.
The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.
Each of your excursions is balanced by the strengthening of the tonal.
When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.
Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.
When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.
