It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.
When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.
Emotions are not 'bad. ' At the roots of our emotions are primal energies which can be put to fruitful use. Indeed. . . the energies of enlightenment arises from the very same natural origins as those which give rise to our everyday passions and emotions.
Chance favors those in motion.
The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.
The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.
I think that when you have somebody who really is kind of forced to see the world through someone else's eyes, I think it really is eye opening.
If he’d been any other man and i'd been any other girl, I’d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But he was Barrons and I was Mac, and a blossoming of lust was about as likely as orchids blooming in Antarctica
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.