Buddhism Quotes - Page 46

When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.

Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.

To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.

It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.

Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.

There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric, cosmic, and dissolute.

Visualize a beautiful rose in the center of your chest. Imagine a soft reddish rose. Imagine that the rose is completely folded up. Visualize the first set of petals is gradually unfolding.

The trick to being happy is getting beyond the body and the astral realms.

In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.

The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.

When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.

While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.

Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another.

As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser.

If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you. The more conscious you are of those selves and the more you let them find expression through you, the more complete you will be.

Your experiences in the causal dimensions will give you knowledge of time, space, dimensionality and what lies beyond all these things.

The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.

Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body; that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting awarenesses. It's like a molecular bond, DNA, a double-helix, and we can change that.

The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate.

Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.

You can move in and through the astral worlds once you have gained control of your subtle body. The astral worlds are the back corridors of eternity!

Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's.

The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above the subtle body is the causal body.

Just as your physical body is composed of tissue, organs, bones, and different parts, so your subtle physical body has many different parts.

Just as we have a physical body, so we have an etheric body and the etheric body is made up of energy, of light.