What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.
Meditation is wondering. It is both wondering and wonder.
Meditation is essential because meditation opens the mind to itself.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.
All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.
You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.
Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration.
There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.
As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.
When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.
Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.
Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.
There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.
There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.
You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.
To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.
The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.
Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.
After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind.
Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.
At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.
