Buddhism Quotes - Page 64

Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's lifetime, they might just open up two or three, maybe four of those bands.

The bands of perception vary greatly. There is the human band of perception. There are lots of different bands of perception. Simply because we are in one band of perception, doesn't mean others are not there.

Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.

Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.

There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.

Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life.

There are many great bands of perception in the universe. There are both organic and inorganic bands of perception.

Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being.

The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention.

When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.

Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in.

Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state of mind other than the state of mind that you're in.

When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.

You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.

Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through prior experience.

If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don't think so, not in the world of magic. In the worlds of magic, there is only one being, reflecting itself in countless forms.

Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.

You are a being of light composed of cells of light joined together in a matrix.

You are a little band of awareness and your awareness moves from one state of mind to another.

The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.

Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.

Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana.