Maitreya

Most people spend a lot of time lost in repetitive old thought patterns that are unconscious and unhelpful. The mind has a far greater creative capacity than you know. Stepping outside of your small ego-world helps put your life into context.
Contemplation means creative, positive thinking; it expands horizons and prepares your mind for the jump into non-conceptual consciousness, or no-mind. When you have developed your natural capacity to think consciously and positively, it is easier to persuade the mind to be silent and present during meditation. Give contemplation a try.

Anadi

Q: What is the difference between me walking in the nature and enlightened person walking?
A: The difference is that you are walking and fully Self-realised being is not walking. An ignorant person is identified with the Here while an Awakened being is One with the Now. If an enlightened being is walking, he or she is walking from the place of not coming, not going and not staying. The difference between you and the Buddha is that you are walking in the forest and Buddha is walking in the Now.

Rumi

You are searching the world for treasure but the real treasure is yourself.

Ramana Maharshi

Are there two "I's?" How do you know your existence? Do you see yourself with these eyes? Question yourself. How does this question arise? Do I remain to ask it or not? Can I find myself as I do in a mirror? Because your outlook has been turned outwards, it has lost sight of the Self and your vision is external. The Self is not found in external objects. Turn your gaze around and plunge within. You will be the Self.

Osho

Know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

Sandôkai

In the light there is darkness,
but don't take it as darkness;

In the dark there is light,
but don't see it as light.

Light and dark oppose one another
like the front and back foot in walking.

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Hearing the words, understand the meaning;
don't establish standards of your own.

Not understanding the Way before your eyes,
how do you know the path you walk?

Walking forward is not a matter of far or near,
but if you are confused, mountains and rivers block your way!


I respectfully urge you who study the mystery,
don't pass your days and nights in vain.

Maitreya Ishwara

When you face this moment of life with full consciousness, the miracle happens. The mind stops and suddenly you are aware, silent and at peace. You enter the fire of Now.
Put aside your ideas about the ultimate truth and experience reality directly. Unverified beliefs will not help you to be free - even if they happen to be true.

Nagarjuna

Life is no different from nirvana,
Nirvana no different than life.
Life’s horizons are nirvana’s:
The two are exactly the same.

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The present is not a fleeting moment: it is the only eternity. In Time “lies” samsara: in the Present “lies” nirvana. ~Wei Wu Wei

Rumi

Suppose you know the definitions
of all substances and their products,
what good is this to you?
Know the true definition of yourself.
That is essential.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it,
that you may attain to the One who cannot be defined,
O sifter of the dust.

Ramana Maharshi

M: See the mind. You must stand aloof from it. You are not the mind.
Q: How should we do all this?
M: The lack of the feeling that we are the Self is the root cause of the trouble. Have nothing to do with thoughts, and be, just be. It is the thoughts alone that create the hindrance; they are the trouble. Find out to whom the thoughts occur. As long as you think that a wrong self exists, it will appear to do so, but find out where it arises and it will disappear. Those who have discovered great truths have done so in the still depths of the Self.

Huineng

What is it in this teaching we call "Sitting in meditation?"
In this teaching, "sitting" means without obstruction anywhere.
Outwardly and under all circumtances, not to activate thoughts.
"Meditation" is internally to see the original nature and not become confused.

Chogyam Trungpa

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

Huang Po

Q: "At this moment, while erroneous thoughts are arising in my mind, where is the Buddha?"

A: "At this moment, you are conscious of those erroneous thoughts. Well, that consciousness is the Buddha!"

Anadi Kristof

Meditation is not a technique. The technique alone will not do. The State of Meditation is a condition of Being in which you don't do anything. In this state, you rest within Totality becoming absorbed into the Universal Presence. The State of Meditation is the state of surrender. This profound surrender unites you with the Beyond.

The state of mind which all human beings share is quite miserable. This mind is fragmented, chaotic and completely confused. In this mind, there is hardly a clear sense of identity and awareness. That's why, there is serious work to be done. Look at the nature of the mind. Do you see how it controls your psyche and suffocates you with unconscious thinking? There is no peace in such a reality, no silence and no love. In this constant flow of information, perceptions and mental impressions – there is no you! Knowing this, will you continue to live like this? Unless you see the whole pain in this situation, how can you rebel against it? How can you find the necessary strength and dedication to face all those challenges and difficulties on the Spiritual Path? Only thanks to clarity can you devote yourself to the task of liberation.

Eckhart Tolle

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation. Underneath your outer form, you are connected with something so vast, so immeasurable and sacred, that it cannot be spoken of—yet I am speaking of it now. I am speaking of it now not to give you something to believe in but to show you how you can know it for yourself.

Maitreya Ishwara

You are busy with the content of your mind. You are dreaming about freedom and missing this miraculous moment of life.
Shifting your attention to the source of mind changes the gestalt significantly; it brings silence. Instead of identifying with thoughts, the mind turns back towards its source and rest in the gap of silence.
This gap of silence is available to every meditator every moment. It is the eternal miracle of truth that is always awaiting your discovery. Freedom is herenow in silent awareness.

Chogyam Trungpa

Freedom cannot be created by an outsider or some superior authority. Once must develop the ability to know the situation. In other words, one has to develop a panoramic awareness, an all-pervading awareness, knowing the situation at that very moment. It is a question of knowing the situation and opening one's eyes to that very moment of nowness, and this is not particularly a mystical experience or anything mysterious at all, but just direct, open, and clear perception of what is now.

Hafiz

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
How are you?

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
What is God?

If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,

If you think that the Sun and the Ocean

Can pass through that tiny opening
Called the mouth,

O someone should start laughing!

Someone should start wildly Laughing---
Now!

David Daida

If you think money will make you happy, then you will be jealous of wealthy people. If you think sex will fulfill you, then you will be jealous of passionate lovers. Whenever you believe that something or someone, some insight or some experience will truly make you happy, you are wrong. Only opening as you are is true happiness. You suffer jealousy when you forget this.

Bodhidharma

Using the mind to see reality is delusion.
Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Osho

Meditation starts with catharsis and ends with celebration. When your diseases are thrown, you can dance and laugh, you can feel blissful. Only in this blissful state will there be a meeting, a meeting with the universe. That meeting is divine.
Unless you have known that meeting and reunion, you have not known anything at all. Only one thing is worth knowing, and that is the deep rootedness of your being in the being of the universe. Unless you feel that you are the universe, that you are in the universe and the universe is in you, you will be in misery; you will be in hell.

Anadi (former Aziz Kristof)

Simply speaking, the purpose of meditation is to radically transcend the mind. The aim of the Spiritual Path is to create an ability to live, to be, to exist beyond thinking. It is not to 'space out.' Many translate the experience of being spaced-out as the 'no-mind.' The spaced-out state is the dark-negative side of no-mind. The true no-mind is grounded in the Self, in the reality of I Am. In this state, there is strength of energy, clear awareness and depth of Being. Here, one is solidly rooted in Reality.

Adyashanti

In order to wake up, you must commit all of your inner resources one-pointedly to the task at hand. You must be willing to suspend all other considerations and make awakening the top priority of this life.

Maitreya Ishwara

Conscious surrender to the sacrament of each divine moment connects you directly to Source without any need for belief in God. This direct divine connection is the way of rapid growth.
The common factor for all groups and religions is the conscious recognition that 'things are like this now'. This includes all creative expression and the desire to make things better. Allowing the energy of Now to move you brings relief from your neurotic mind and is even efficient in completing the essentials of life.

For spiritual growth, the energy of the moment is all you need to follow. This energy pulls you into discipline, effort and let-go at exactly the right time. And things only ever change when the time is right.

Goethe

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Chogyam Trungpa

To be willing to experience our world directly is the mark of our courageousness, our openness -- which actually means freedom. So in other words, we could say quite seriously that freedom cannot be bought by anesthetics.