You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.
From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a spiritual experience. We are seeing life is not perhaps as we thought, but a little bit different, vastly different.
When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy.
You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.
We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.
The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana.
Not everyone is your friend. When you are psychic you tend to forget that others don't view life the way you do.
Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.
What we're seeking to do is become transparent. A transparent window on reality. But that takes time to do. We're starting with a very solid, objectified view of ourselves and existence
Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.
Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They're just different choices, different videos that you've selected to view tonight.
The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.
The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you.
The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them to countless views of the nagual.
I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.
You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.
Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.
Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.
On the pathway of knowledge we view life as in a dream. We feel that all of this world is a dream.
Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world in which a woman views herself as a vessel, as someone who's only there to have children, as someone who can't succeed, even spiritually.
An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open up your aura and increase it. You will move into a higher plane of knowledge. You will gain a new view of the world.
From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.
You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.
In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.
Place an object within your view, hopefully at about eye level. You might have to look down a little bit. Some people have a meditation table on which they put an object of concentration on.
